Most of full time employees spend an average of 8 hours a day at the office, and generally speaking most of us spend more time engaging with colleagues and co-workers than engaging with family and friends and if it is not a friendly environment it is going to be HUGE problem.

According to a BBC report a friendly and pleasant working environment is the key to getting the most of employees.

It is obvious that there is contrast between a social environment and a working environment, to clear this difference you need to integrate more relaxed personal and friendly influences. A friendly working environment leads to higher job satisfaction and increased productivity while an offensive or unfriendly working environment leads to boredom, less productivity and dissatisfaction. Informal get together outside work would develop a higher rate of engagement and interaction between employees as well as increasing the opportunity to build high quality relationships.

It is inexpensive and very easy to create a friendly working environment; it only requires the managerial and leadership roles to lead their team based on a set of standards or principles and to embrace them team on a personal level through clear communication, treating them with respect and putting them first!

Make sure that your employees understand and are passionate about the company’s goal as you are, make them feel like it’s their second home, demonstrate a positive attitude and embrace them with optimism and achievement, this would improve the employees’ morale and in return it would increase employees’ retention rates. So you always have to make sure that your work environment is friendly and inviting, and once it is maintained you can get the BEST out of your employees.