Infographic: 9 Reasons Workplace Culture Matters

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Looking for the evidence to show focusing on employee experience is crucial to business success? This infographic illustrates 9 reasons better workplace culture means better business.

A great employee experience means a strong business.

This is what the research has shown for decades. When companies create a workplace culture that values employees and builds work relationships high in trust, the business does better. In the ever-changing, ultra-competitive business world of today, that can mean a huge advantage.

Yet for some, culture still seems like a “soft” topic – a nice-to-have that’s not core to the business.

So let’s get into the numbers. What exactly does company culture have to do with your business metrics? How can you quantify the ROI of focusing on your employee experience?

We put together this infographic to breakdown exactly how a positive employee experience means better business. While it’s not an exhaustive list, it covers the 9 core connections between your culture and your bottom line. Those reasons range from higher stock market returns to higher employee engagement to increased customer satisfaction.

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Great Place to Work® is a global people analytics and consulting firm that helps companies of all sizes produce better business results by focusing on the work experience for every employee—our research shows there’s a clear and direct relationship between employee engagement and financial performance. Over the past 30 years, we have surveyed more than 100 million employees to help organizations around the world identify and build high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Powered by decades of research, Emprising®, our Software-as-a-Service survey and analytics platform, empowers companies with access to the assessments, data, and real-time reporting needed to help them create a meaningful impact on their business, their people, and their culture. Through our certification programs, we recognize outstanding workplaces and produce Fortune’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, as well as a variety of other Best Workplace rankings in the United States and in more than 60 other countries. Everything we do is driven by our mission: to build a better world by helping every organization become a Great Place to Work For All by the year 2030.

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