Hybrid happiness: Managing organizational happiness in the new reality
Opinion by BUYME CEO Tomer Cohen: "The work environment has changed considerably in terms of physical locations and work output."
In recent years, organizations are realizing, more profoundly than ever, that human capital is their most precious resource.
This understanding, and the panic it aroused, have become routine topics in the daily media: the difficulties involved in recruitment and the benefits various companies offer their employees.
As it befits the new reality of the labor market, the work environment has changed considerably in terms of physical locations and work output. Whatever the specific changes occurring in each company, human resources departments are forced to reinvent themselves to respond effectively to the new situation.
The office
The organizational happiness administrations now face a new responsibility of making the office a desirable place for employees so that more of them would choose to come there every day. To this end, the company needs to create an enjoyable work environment through happy hours, workers’ activities and workshops and other value-adding propositions in the office.
Employee creativity
Hence, happiness administrations should conceive solutions for producing and preserving employee interaction. Creativity is critical for success in Israel’s thriving tech industry, which bears the title of "Start-Up Nation." Organizing work peers’ gatherings in the company’s offices or off-site is one way of sparking collaborations and encouraging cross-fertilization, resulting in increased employee creativity.
The family happiness
Children watch their parents working and are influenced by their work.
In other words, families have become another target audience of the organization. Whereas previously, happiness administrations organized happy hours for employees only, they now need to organize "happy meals" as an element the whole family can enjoy at home.
The new needs of the work world – employees’ physical presence at the office, the creation of interactions, providing more value for employees, and caring for family happiness as part of the employee’s well-being, give rise to a new model of managing organizational happiness.
We call it "hybrid happiness" because it combines working from home, interactions outside the office and the introduction of organizational happiness to the home, thus giving rise to the organizational happiness of the new age.
Technology is available today to provide hybrid happiness.
Meetinkz's technology facilitates off-site orders. Well-b saves valuable time and ensures the happy hour will be a high-quality event. Yet another option is VAZA, which provides another way for reaching out to families.
Whatever you choose, here's to happy employees.
Tomer Cohen is the CEO of BUYME.