Keep Your Employees happy: Allow them to shop!

Mom: Son, when are you going to shop for New Years?

Son: Mom. I don’t have time, I have so many things going on in office…How I am supposed to find time to finish them…I will wear some old stuff…anyways I hate shopping!!!

Mom:What will your girl think of you??

Ideal situation these days in every family I guess isn’t it? With work pressures soaring and no time to spend with family but office, and whatcan be expectedwhen you spend more than 12 hours in office than home!

A major problem being since, employees are restricted from using internet, as they seem to spend all day on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and online shopping sites which cuts into productivity. But some recent research suggests that restricting access to non-work-related content entirely can actually impede productivity.

Instead, some recommend a more measured approach in which employees are allotted pockets of time for browsing the Web, not unlike a coffee or lunch break.

Well I am entirely in support of this approach; you can constantly be updated on your important mails or can get into some serious shopping that you need to do while you are at work. Maybe the chat option can be disabled as that is something which keeps employees hooked up, but productive stuff like online shopping or to Google some project related stuff really helps.

Instead of getting distracted by trivialchores like shopping or gifting on birthdays, anniversaries or for the humongous number of festivals round the corner always; employees will be motivated that they can order anything that they need online and be rest assured of not taking trouble to drive down and get hassled about shopping in traffic and spend endless time discussing and deciding on what could be gifted or bought with very few options available on hand in retail stores!

With firms focusing on employee engagement these days, employee motivation and fulfillment also counts big time to help them to put their hearts, minds and efforts entirelyinto their work. How to effect change? Companies sometime seem as unmindful of work pleasure as

work appraisal! So, mild remedies like an internet break won’t do. With day after day becoming monotonous for employees, it may be time for some perks whether by providing a separate internet PC where one can browse whenever they have time or internet option on PC without chat options. It’s argued whether this is really an incentive to employees or an act of worry for the company. But with employees spending an enormous amount of time at work, there’s surely need of an online browsing facility for employees.

Online sites meantime should more than introspect. They have very less time to attract consumers, engage them and help them provide everything at the flip of a coin.