Why Your Employees Hate Their Job But Google's Don't?

Do your employees hate their job? No need to ask them because If you are an US citizen, studies from Conference Board show that 50% of your employees answer will be `Yes.` If employees hate their jobs, productivity of the firm will be at the minimum level and logically it directly affects the performance. So, employers has to be aware of this problem and solve it. But `How?` In this article, I will try to give some tips to employers who want to achieve success.



Actually, in today's business there are a lot of good examples; Google, SAS, Edward Jones etc. Of course, I'm not saying that copy the Google's culture and apply it to your company directly. It can not fit. Companies are like humans, every company has different culture and traditions. Take good examples from business environment and try to change it into your style. Day by day, it will become your company's culture. In Google's early days, founders meet with SAS executives personally and investigate the workplace culture. They came back to Google Office and use the SAS' ideas with their own perspectives. Can we say now Google copy directly from SAS? No.

As I mentioned above, culture is very important. Employees has to find specific bond between them and company. If they find something from them into the company's culture, they will feel like family. Everyone wants their family to be more successful right? Exactly. That's why companies which have specific cultures change employees perspective to the job. If your employees think that `!@#$! this, i don't care if the company lose money or not.` you will have a bad times.

Personally, I worked some places where employers don't care about employee and think that `if one gone, next will come` If It is McDonald's, yes it can be true because probably nothing will change between one worker to another according to performance. But for jobs which require some skills, losing one employee can cost company hugely.

Sas' Day-Care

Every employee wants to feel special. And they deserve it. They want to think that `my company cares about me!` Most of the best companies to work provide `onsite day-care` or `cover 100% health care costs` `12 weeks after pregnancy paid off`. This is all because companies want their employees to be relax, don't care about anything except work. And it works! Because they don't need to think about`What is my child doing now at home?` or `If I got sick, can my insurance cover it? ` `What If I got pregnant?` stuff and just focus 100% to the job.

When the last time you gave chance to your employees for asking you questions about company? Larry Page and Sergey Brin make forums and answer the most frequently asked questions in there. Because not only board members, employees have right to know what is happening

Nobody likes getting work e-mails or messages after work. Lastly, Yahoo! banned to sending work e-mails after work to the employees because it was decreasing their productivity. What is more, Studies show that 35 work hours per week is the best for the productivity and after 40 hours, productivity is decreasing sharply. What is good for your company? Traditional 10 work hours with zero concentration or 5 work hours with complete concentration? Answer is obvious.

What are the benefits of the `happy employee`?

I'm going to answer this question by GreatPlacetoWork's arguments. According to them, Fortune's Top 100 Best Place to Work companies perform better than others in the market.You can check the statistics at the site.

In Conclusion

All in all, making employees happy is easy thing to do. Of course, they want to get higher salary but this is not the only thing employees want. Like every human beings they want to feel secure and protected. Actually the formula for success is so easy  `Give your employees to get from them and value them.`