Personal Life and Productivity
It is no a secret that how your personal life will adversely or proportionally have the same effect to your office productivity. It is impossible to leave it out of the office. I therefore believe that organizations start making in-roads to their employees and build stronger relationships.
The past strategy was to have a lot of company sponsored activities and give out a lot of fringe benefits. This however is not as effective in today's environment, what happened is that year-in and year-out, the same old activities with the same program happens over and over again, makes you feel like ground hog day and more employees are not attending.
Most of the fringe benefits have also not been updated and does not quite relate to the current needs anymore, updates to these strategy also come to far in-between. As technology quickly changes, updates and innovates, so to the business and the organization, this also makes consumers, clients change quickly and trickles down to the employees.
So, a great benefit a year or two ago might not be as great today, the most used benefit 3 years ago might already be the less used.
I therefore challenge organizations to build a more deeper relationship with your employees, make a complete profile and be pro-active in their needs and be sensitive in their current predicaments and situations. Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly will be key to this fast changing times.