In 2018, Leesman independently assessed the workplace experience of 151,770 employees across 971 workplaces worldwide, further bolstering what was already the largest available body of comparative data on workplace effectiveness.
The findings expose a huge diversity in the operational effectiveness of employees’ working environments, revealing the sometimes-stark differences between what employers are providing and what employees need. They also reveal that a large number of organizations are simply not getting what they could from their workplaces. In too many spaces opportunities are being routinely overlooked, and the toxic impact on employees of poor physical and virtual infrastructure, grossly underestimated. But an elite group of employers buck this trend, delivering individual workplaces that brilliantly support employee experience. Some of these spaces—ones that comply with strict qualification criteria—are awarded our coveted Leesman+ certification.
Understanding what makes the workplaces that achieve Leesman+ status distinctive, and how they differ to the vast majority of corporate workplaces remains a key focus for the Leesman team. In 2018, 13 organizations were awarded Leesman+ certification across 28 workplaces, and their outstanding achievements are investigated and celebrated in a new research report.
With workplace commentators now acknowledging that employee experience provides the stepping stones to employee engagement, it is no surprise to see these 13 organizations remaining well clear of the global average workplaces on areas such as employee pride and the workplace being an enjoyable place to be. These workplaces are valuable assets in organizational development and performance.
The strategies behind the world’s best workplace differ among regions, sector and of course employee functions, but there are similarities in what these organizations are doing and how they approach the balancing act of ‘work’ not only being a thing you do, but also a place you actually want to be.
Here are four key overarching themes from the recently published report:
