Your employer’s attitude is what makes or breaks the workplace atmosphere. While some employers tend to be more stoic and closed-off in a bid to cultivate hierarchical respect, some are loud mouthed and extremely critical.
Most of these behaviors are a result of a strategic planning to avoid getting too involved with the employees. However, it’s proven employers that don’t reach out and connect with their employees often create an unhealthy and unsatisfactory work environment.
As an employee, it’s crucial for you to know when a workplace atmosphere is working for you. Also, when it’s causing you an unhealthy work-life balance and hampering your work productivity.
This often rests upon how the employers treat you. To assess your work environment better, take note of these five things that show your employers care.
Your employers care when they:
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Treat You as an Equal
Instead of acting above the employees, the employers that relate to them and value their opinion often see a team of dedicated and long term workers who pitch in creative ideas aimed at bringing profit to the company.
It makes the employees feel like they can share more freely and take risks at work.
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Show Interest in your Personal Life
This doesn’t mean they chat up with you on the regular about your date or married life. A good employer gauges the behavior and listens to the employee when they seek some advice over a personal issue.
It could be anything from a financial crisis, apartment or home eviction or just hitting a slump. If your employer guides you and goes out of their way to help you, they really care.
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Host an Outdoor Fun Event
A good employer understands working in a closed office space can get highly monotonous and makes the work space dull. A savvy employer sees the opportunity to host and offsite team building event.
An offsite team building event allows workers to rejuvenate and also strengthens the bond among them to make the workplace more productive and friendly.
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Show Appreciation
In order to understand and evaluate your performance and ability, it is essential the employer keeps you posted about your achievements. An employer that shows the much needed appreciation for the employees work fosters an encouraging environment. The employees feel motivated to put their best efforts into the projects.
On the flip side, it also helps when the employer calmly talks to the employees about any errors or mistakes they made. This helps them learn from them in order to be more efficient in the future.
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Respect Your Personal Life
With competitive businesses, the work hours have shot up tremendously in most workplaces. The result?
Stressed employees with a terrible, off the scale work-life balance. An employer who cares, understands a healthy work life balance is crucial for their employees’ productivity and their personal life.
An employer will respect you have a life outside of the workplace and will not disturb you with emails and work on your days off and hours outside of the office unless it’s an absolute emergency.
Concluding Thoughts
If your employers shows behaviors that makes you not want to get out of bed to go to work, it’s a sign you’re stuck in an unhealthy workplace. Many employers consider arrogance and stoicism as traits every boss must possess to earn respect.
Not only does this separates employers from the employers in addition to a high employee attrition rate. However, if an employer goes out of their way to make sure the employees are
- happy,
- gives them regular feedback,
- direction and
- respects their personal life
they’ll cultivate a healthy workplace that sees a long term staff of dedicated workers. If your employer shows that amount of care and concern, stick with them!
