Workplace Insight: Reflecting culture in your workplace
Your organization’s culture is the core of the employee experience. While many try to define it on paper, it takes real effort from leadership as well as buy-in from employees to transform your idea of culture into reality. Your physical building, as well as the way your workplace extends into remote settings, is a reflection of your culture, and the decisions you make can support or contradict your messaging. This is the way that you demonstrate your support for your employees and empower them to carry out your mission.
Cultural buy-in not only engages employees, it can also function as a powerful recruiting and engagement tool when they share it beyond the workplace. And during this pandemic especially, your culture is what ties your team together and keeps them connected in spite of physical separation.
Our recent workplace research with data from more than 1,200 credit union employees, featured in our recent whitepaper and upcoming webinar “A Study of Credit Union Workplaces and the Future of Work,” reveals a disconnect between cultural ideals and how they are reflected in the workplace.
Pride in one’s workplace is a reflection of a strong culture that is reflected in the working environment. Yet only 55% of employees are proud of their workplaces, and only 56% feel that their workplace contributes to a sense of community.
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