Have you noticed increased absentee, tardy, and turnover rates in your office? When employees are bored and fatigued from the same daily repetition in the office, they become burned out and simply don’t want to go to work. This can make a person feel disconnected from their company, and lead to more absences and sometimes even push an employee to start looking for a more interesting and challenging job. How can you create a more stimulating work environment that will keep your employees happy and focused? Well, laughter truly is the best medicine for just about everything, even in a dull office, adding humor to the workplace is a sure-fire way to bring life back to your employees. Laughter helps people loosen up and reduces stress, which is especially beneficial in a work environment. Check out these fun facts about laughter:
How do all of these benefits of laughter promote a more efficient workplace? Creating an appropriately humorous environment in the office can reduce the monotony that comes along with a tedious work day. Schools give children recess so they can have fun and rejuvenate their brains, and the same thought process applies to a work environment. Humor increases a person’s productivity in many ways:
If we think back to when we were children, we remember that while we certainly didn’t like school work, we generally thought school was a fun place to be. Why? It’s because we knew how to laugh-we could turn the most humdrum activities into slapstick comedy. It’s easy to lose this ability when we become adults, because we feel the stress associated with the necessity of achieving high performance rates in the workplace. If we just stepped back for a moment, we would realize that bringing humor into the office would actually help us achieve these high performance rates much more easily.