How things look around you and your employees affects how they think. Our work environment tells our employees and customers what kind of company this is, what our standards are, how they are expected to behave and what quality we expect. It also affects the daily productivity of each team member.
If groups of employees work out of your faciity during the day, they take these standards with them to customers homes or workplaces.
Look around you. Is it time to make some changes?
We had a old office for our corporate staff that was several smaller rooms with each work unit in a separate room, and had a lot of turf and backbiting problems. We moved to an office with a single large room where everyone could see and hear each other and had a dramatic improvement in teamwork and working together. It was really dramatic!