Aviva’s Health and Workplace Study Reveals New Findings
August 3rd, 2010
Aviva has just concluded its annual Health and Workplace research and found that businesses in
Of the employers surveyed, 39% said that their focus was to create a dynamic and flexible team while 31% stated that their emphasis was on generating maximum productivity per staff member. About 47% or half of the employees surveyed said that they felt greater tension at work than in their personal lives, with just 10% admitting that the stress at home exceeded that at the workplace. 45% said that they suffered from work stress and 50% felt that they were positive role models. 19% of workers believed that their supervisors were the root of their stress.
More than a quarter of the employees surveyed said that improvements in employee work/life balance could be brought about. The study also showed instances of positive behaviours from employers. For instance, 27% of employers said that their most important goal was to build a team of individuals who liked interacting with one another while 25% said that their chief priority was to create a friendly company atmosphere with a good work/personal life balance. Achieving this balance was the top priority for 50% of the companies that had a small staff of less than nine while the figure dropped to 12% for companies that had more than 100 staff members.
Among the employees surveyed, 2% admitted that their workplace wasn’t exactly a friendly place while one out of four (25%) felt that their company was friendly and the social integration among employees was great.
About 46% of employers said that they held regular social get-togethers for employees in a bid to foster team spirit. But one out of five employees confessed that they didn’t like to interact with fellow workers. Another 15% said that though they felt obliged to show their faces, they didn’t particularly enjoy doing so.
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