5 ways to dramatically boost employee satisfaction

While free food and ping pong tables are nice workplace perks, you’ll need to offer more intangibles to make sure employees stick around.

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There are things money can’t buy. While a stocked fridge, on-site yoga classes and ping pong tables are incredible office perks, they’re ultimately surface-level extras.

Employees deserve more. To develop a workplace that makes people happy and motivated, consider offering these benefits to all team members:

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1. Streamlined workflows.

Run. Rinse. Repeat. While practice does, indeed, make perfect, no one personally values doing the same task over and over again, especially if it is mindless, low-impact work or it hijacks valuable time that could be spent doing more productive things.

Inefficiencies add up, and everyone tends to dwell on the frustratingly slow motor that’s powering a generally well-oiled machine. Do audits of how things are done and identify ways to consolidate steps and remove barriers to increase overall output without pushing people harder.

2. Flextime.

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