What is the ideal workplace for your company?

Woliba’s report – produced with the contribution of Arkage’s Data-Powered Creativity and W-Mind – tells us which factors have the greatest impact on the motivation and productivity of employees in the office.
Even before Covid-19, the idea of the “office” was already changing, and we’re not just talking about office design. The workplace was (and will be) the place where people spend most of their time: on average, according to some data, even ten hours a day. This is why a quality (and also safer) working environment makes those who work there “happier”. Furthermore, the workplace becomes a driver for attracting talents. And consequently, more productive and “profitable” for a company’s business.
Woliba’s research examines the responses of 1,050 private sector employees, to reveal the drivers of productivity and motivation and the sources of stress in the office and, based on these insights, to outline the main factors that guide the choice of benefits for the ideal workplace.
Workers pointed to 5 areas of greatest sensitivity: the need for sociality and the presence of an active community within the workplace; the theme of office environment design, with a focus on the so-called “ergonomic office”; the value of urban regeneration and sustainability; changes in the dynamics of production, with work no longer measured in units of time but by objectives; and the benefits of good nutrition, fitness and other relaxation activities also available in the workplace.
Particular attention is paid to the specific issues of Management by Objectives and Smart Working, increasingly central to working life also in light of the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic and to whose management companies should give careful thought. In fact, agile work is highly appreciated by Millennial workers, already accustomed to goal-oriented work, and less by Seniors – an important part of the workforce.
The What Workers Want report goes into detail on these topics, with an overview of the historical and sociocultural changes in workers’ prerogatives from the 1980s to today by Dr. Luciana d’Ambrosio Marri, a sociologist of labour, and the organisational psychologist Prof. Andrea Castiello d’Antonio.
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