In 2016, Steelcase; world leader in professional furniture has launched a report on the index of employee engagement within companies in 17 countries spread across 5 continents.
The results demonstrate 5 key indicators, one of them highlights the correlation between the notion of commitment and the satisfaction of working in a comfortable space (Workplace satisfaction).
If the performance of organizations is analyzed through numerical indicators, today it is crucial for companies to attract talent. This attractiveness depends on the means implemented to attract them, maintain them and develop them in an environment conducive to development.
The second indicator demonstrates that an engaged employee has more control over their development within the company that employs them. The company is a place of life where social ties, depending on the cultural context; remains important, evolution and sustainability are no longer completely synonymous with quantified data. Management is transformed as the barriers between leaders and “led” are broken down. Make way for kindness, active listening, empathy and agility.
Everything is no longer applicable in a workspace that does not encourage reflection, development and comfort.
The data also highlights the need to juxtapose organizational structures and professional space arrangements, one does not go without the other. Comfort and ergonomics make it possible to promote connections, create proximity and highlight the brand image of the organization, with the ambition and constant concern to engage employees with their employers.
Finally, the arrangement of the workspace is also a way of adapting to the crises that the company may go through by rationalizing its spaces or adapting to health crises where they must combine teleworking and on-site work.