INDUSTRY
W O R K S PA C E S AT I S FA C T I O N
Workspace satisfaction leads to greater productivity A new survey of European workers has found that satisfaction in their workspace leads to greater productivity
M
ick Jagger, frontman of the Rolling
office. Moreover, 88% of UK employees say satisfaction
Stones, famously sang about how he
improves their productivity by more than 25%.
couldn’t ‘get no satisfaction’ in his
Additional social media sentiment analysis
life. If the same is true of employees
conducted by Fellowes Brands backs up the survey
and their workspaces, chances are
results; it found that there were 1.9 million mentions of
they aren’t going to be as productive as they could be,
workspace satisfaction in the past 12 months, up from
according to the results of a new survey of more than
1.5 million mentions in the previous year. Following a
6,000 employees across Europe – including 1,000 from
period where many Britons spent a year working almost
the UK – carried out by Fellowes Brands.
exclusively from home, Fellowes Brands’ survey found
It found that 91% of all European employees, and
that 36% of UK employees who work from home say
89% of UK employees, say satisfaction is important to
they feel more productive in the office, and 29% say
them in their workspaces, regardless of whether their
they feel more productive when working in the new
working location is the corporate office or the home
‘hybrid’ working environment.
[20] NOVEMBER 2021
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