The wellbeing of your employees isn’t a program or HR checklist. It’s a business strategy aimed at increasing employee productivity, enhancing engagement and improving overall health and happiness in the workplace. And like any good business strategy, it’s ongoing, targeted and essential to what defines your organization and its success.
Every year Gensler designs millions of square-feet of workplace environments. We have an obligation to understand the relationship between the environments and spaces we produce and the meaning they have for others, which is why we developed a holistic wellbeing model, WorkWell℠.
In the past, organizations measured employee satisfaction. Today, the top firms measure things like happiness, which only a few years ago might have been considered too touchy-feely. For the last six years, Etsy has been using its Happiness Index as a critical tool to measure the experiences and sentiment of their employees. They believe that a happy employee is someone who feels excited by their work, proud of the company’s decisions, connected to the mission, aligned with their values and supported by their colleagues. Through their annual study, they gain a broad view of the health of their organization, as well as insight into how employees relate to Etsy’s mission and values, and to one other.