Comments on: How to Foster a Productive Work Environment https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/ Pepper Virtual Assistants Philippines Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: How to Instill Productivity in the Workplace | Pepper Virtual Assistants https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1664 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:03:09 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1664 […] how can you boost growth and productivity in the workplace? Let’s take a look at what you can […]

]]> By: Angelo Cyril Ugto https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1663 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:33:56 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1663 Home is where the heart is.
An old cliché, but it is very meaningful indeed. Once you think about it, that cliché can be deep, very deep. In movies, we hear that line whenever the protagonist comes home and runs to the open arms of his or her loved ones, after battling it out with the antagonists and whatever plot the movie has before going into climax. We’ve heard that line before and thought not much about it.
Of course, when you get home, that’s where all of your human self lets loose. You change into more comfortable baggy clothes, you don’t care what you look, how you smell or how you act, because its home! You don’t need to be someone else to just please others.
Good thing home is very different from work since the latter lets you rest and just feel comfortable about anything, unlike the former. But wait, how about we take the feeling of being home at work? Is it even possible? Of course it is! A working environment with a sense of home? Some may have furrowed eyebrows upon reading it but come to think of it, when you make your workplace just like your house, isn’t that very accommodating, very relaxing and motivating to imagine?
I have been hopping from one company to another and I can really tell the difference. Though, no company is really perfect but I get to see a blending of different aspects of architecture and ideas fusing together in making a workplace just like home.
One company has a very colorful vibe, pleasing to the eyes and friendly. It lightens up my mood everytime I go to the office. Another is perfect in its amenities, has the necessary facilities to make an employee feel relaxed and at ease like a naproom, a lounge with soft fluffy sofas and cable TV. But I’ve also been to a company wherein it really lacks anything that would make an employee motivated in even going to work; hence that company was my shortest stay.
Google headquarters should be mentioned here. They have slides going from the second to the first floor. Their office is really vibrant, colorful, cheerful and friendly. It’s like working in Disneyworld! As what I know, Google is recognized as a company with the most motivated employees. I bet they get to work there 20 years or more – I would!
See? It is possible. It can be possible. Work can feel like home as well if the facilities, amenities and the aura motivate employees. Imagine being an employee with a loved one who just passed away, would you rather see a dull and monotonous working environment or a vibrant and cheerful one? The latter would further worsen your grief than the former, which would help you overcome it easily!
Let’s get back to the quote, “home is where the heart is”. If your working environment feels at home, that’s where you’ll love to stay, that’s where your heart would be. You’ll give your best in your job and you’ll exceed expectations from your managers hence working your way on top easily and making your life easier.
Think about this next time you look for an employer, it’s not always the salary.

]]> By: Angelo https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1662 Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:32:03 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1662 Home is where the heart is.
An old cliché, but it is very meaningful indeed. Once you think about it, that cliché can be deep, very deep. In movies, we hear that line whenever the protagonist comes home and runs to the open arms of his or her loved ones, after battling it out with the antagonists and whatever plot the movie has before going into climax. We’ve heard that line before and thought not much about it.
Of course, when you get home, that’s where all of your human self lets loose. You change into more comfortable baggy clothes, you don’t care what you look, how you smell or how you act, because its home! You don’t need to be someone else to just please others.
Good thing home is very different from work since the latter lets you rest and just feel comfortable about anything, unlike the former. But wait, how about we take the feeling of being home at work? Is it even possible? Of course it is! A working environment with a sense of home? Some may have furrowed eyebrows upon reading it but come to think of it, when you make your workplace just like your house, isn’t that very accommodating, very relaxing and motivating to imagine?
I have been hopping from one company to another and I can really tell the difference. Though, no company is really perfect but I get to see a blending of different aspects of architecture and ideas fusing together in making a workplace just like home.
One company has a very colorful vibe, pleasing to the eyes and friendly. It lightens up my mood everytime I go to the office. Another is perfect in its amenities, has the necessary facilities to make an employee feel relaxed and at ease like a naproom, a lounge with soft fluffy sofas and cable TV. But I’ve also been to a company wherein it really lacks anything that would make an employee motivated in even going to work; hence that company was my shortest stay.
Google headquarters should be mentioned here. They have slides going from the second to the first floor. Their office is really vibrant, colorful, cheerful and friendly. It’s like working in Disneyworld! As what I know, Google is recognized as a company with the most motivated employees. I bet they get to work there 20 years or more – I would!
See? It is possible. It can be possible. Work can feel like home as well if the facilities, amenities and the aura motivate employees. Imagine being an employee with a loved one who just passed away, would you rather see a dull and monotonous working environment or a vibrant and cheerful one? The latter would further worsen your grief than the former, which would help you overcome it easily!
Let’s get back to the quote, “home is where the heart is”. If your working environment feels at home, that’s where you’ll love to stay, that’s where your heart would be. You’ll give your best in your job and you’ll exceed expectations from your managers hence working your way on top easily and making your life easier.
Think about this next time you look for an employer, it’s not always the salary.

]]> By: Pepper https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1661 Mon, 11 May 2015 06:42:31 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1661 In reply to Tiffany Motilla.

Well said, Tiffany! Thank you for those valuable insights! 🙂

]]> By: Tiffany Motilla https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1660 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 06:53:26 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1660 From what I’ve learned from school, every single thing that was listed in this article is pretty much accurate – the work environment, communication and their limitations, recognition, freedom of speech, tools and so on. However, I would like to add two other factors that could increase productivity through the work space: opportunities for growth and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Firstly, what do I mean by ‘opportunities for growth’? These are increase in compensation and benefits, salaries, perks, and higher chances of promotion. Employees need these kinds of events within the work space because it adds “gasoline”; people would tend to improve their work performance, increase output and so on.

Another is CSR. What good would CSR do in the work place? As we all know, CSR is all about reaching out to the community. Employees are not robots that lives mainly to work; people also have hearts for the society. My point is, helping out the rest of the society – outside our work places, outside our homes, even outside our own concerns – could softer a person’s heart. With that point being said: as an employee, knowing where your hardwork could take you and the rest of the world, does that not burn the desire within you to do more?

With all these being stated, what I would really like to say is that people do not linger with work alone; people search for self-improvements and being a good person, because we are all a lifetime project.

]]> By: Ems Sy Chan https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1659 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:21:26 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1659 I was looking for the entry putting Christ at the center of the work environment as the first requirement for a productive work environment, but it might offend non-Christian readers, so let me rephrase that with the Divine at the center of the work environment, all the good things will follow as “God created all things good.” (Genesis 1:25)

If I may add words of affirmation to colleagues and superiors and to everyone else in the office under the subheading Recognition since it will make everybody feel important, and when everybody feels good, everyone will also treat each other well. Respect for the rest of the creature God created as well as self-respect is important in the work environment. Toss in respect for time because it tells the other that you are important for me because I’m giving you something valuable which cannot be returned anymore.

Lastly, love for the self and others is vital in a work environment. Without the virtue of charity, pride, envy, and all the other capital sins might create chaos in the work environment.

]]> By: Pepper https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1658 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:23:17 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1658 In reply to Ligaya Cabilas.

So true, Ligaya! We need to be comfortable in our work space to be productive! 🙂

]]> By: Pepper https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1657 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 02:22:08 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1657 In reply to Rodel M. Lozano.

Thanks for sharing your insights, Rodel! We appreciate it! 🙂

]]> By: Rodel M. Lozano https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1656 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:18:43 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1656 In a company, employer-employee relationship is very important to make individuals productive in their work.
In this article it talks about the tips that would increase the productivity level of an employee. It emphasizes on how to treat the employee well.
Definitely, all these tips are very useful and helpful to make employees highly productive and in the same way the company will also benefit on it and gradually it will prosper.
This article would really make the companies all over the world a successful one. This is a very nice article that each owner/manager should know for the betterment of everybody.

]]> By: Ligaya Cabilas https://peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/how-to-foster-a-productive-work-environment/#comment-1655 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:00:22 +0000 http://www.peppervirtualassistant.com/blog/?p=2335#comment-1655 Indeed this article reminds us that our workplace is our second home. Having a good working place will help the employee become more productive as their working place will tell them how they are being valued.

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