How To Keep Employees Happy

January 31, 2024

How To Keep Employees Happy

1. Verbally Affirm After Successes

Recognizing and highlighting employee success is a sure-fire way to encourage your team in the workplace. Not only does it allow your employee to feel seen and heard, but it also pushes their coworkers to work hard to receive the same recognition. A simple email affirmation, or a brief mention of a job well-done during a meeting will show your employees that you see how hard they’re working, and that their diligence is something that is appreciated. 

2. Allow (and Encourage) Creativity

Your employees know how your business works, and they have fresh sets of eyes when it comes to growing, making changes, and thinking about the future. Allowing these ideas to be explained and shown in a professional setting can promote a sense of pride in participating employees, and seeing their ideas put into practice can jumpstart engagement and excitement in regards to the workplace. 

3. Recognize Burnout and Allow Breaks

In a modern day, fast-paced lifestyle, burnout among employees is very common. It is important as an employer to know your employees well enough to be able to see burnout coming down the pipeline. There are easy ways to incorporate healthy breaks into a work day and a work week that don’t hinder productivity, and help to limit the risk of burnout, and more disastrous outcomes that chronic stress can bring. Allow activity to break up the day, and allow employees to take advantage of fresh air. Deadlines and due dates are necessary to keep a business on track, but allowing employees to get up and take a lap can boost productivity and keep new ideas flowing.


4. Prioritize Growth

Provide opportunities for growth and career advancement to keep employees engaged and involved in your company. Don’t assume that your employees pictured this job as their end goal. By listening to them and showing them that they are valuable members of your company, you will allow them to see the bigger picture of what their career can offer. Growth is a mindset that promotes flourishing and the extension of who you are. Everyone can benefit from a growth mindset, because when you sit for too long on one spot, things start to lack. Prioritizing growth can keep employee engagement up, and allow them to have a renewed sense of importance within the company.

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Sources:

13 Ways To Increase Employee Happiness & Productivity At Work In 2024 (nectarhr.com)

12 Tips for Happy Employees Without Boosting Pay (businessnewsdaily.com)

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