Only half (57 per cent) of staff worldwide believe their workplace fosters productivity, a new study has found.
The report, entitled The Next 250k and published by research company Leesman, revealed that offices routinely present barriers to daily work, affecting everything from how proud people are to work for their organisation to how much they enjoy showing up to work each morning.
The researchers discovered that, although 57 per cent of employees agreed that their workplace did promote productivity, 15 per cent said they neither agreed nor disagreed that it did and 28 per cent disagreed.
Design features found to have the biggest impact on employees’ ability to work productively included space and dividers between work settings, and noise levels.
“There is still more that organisations need to be doing if they’re going to leverage the workplace as a source of competitive advantage and a booster of organisational performance,” said Tim Oldman, chief executive of Leesman. “We still see far too many workplaces that are simply not fit for purpose, and that represents a huge missed opportunity for business leaders.”