Optimizing the employee experience: keys to an excellent work environment
The employee experience is a key factor in their productivity, as well as in their loyalty to the company and their professional comfort. Ensuring an optimal level of employee experience is key for any company, but it is a challenge that increases exponentially depending on the number of employees on staff and the workspace to be managed.
What is employee experience?
The concept of what employee experience is quite broad since it includes everything that a professional encounters in a company, from the first search for a job offer leading to this company to the last day he or she is hired. In practical terms and applied to the professional's day-to-day life, the employee experience is the impact generated by all the interactions with the company. The impact generated by the set of interactions of that employee with the rest of the elements of a company this includes both physical resources and collaboration with other employees.
Tools and methods for measuring employee experience
The new technologies have allowed us to delve deeper into the employee experience to measure all the factors that influence this area accurately.
Design and improvement of workspaces
The Foot Analytics 24/7 occupancy analysis allows you to monitor all workspaces in a building or office. By measuring detailed usage patterns and occupant behaviour, we have accurate information on employees and precise information on the employee experience, such as favourite spaces, average office attendance, and density, i.e., square footage per person. While this can be focused on optimising spaces and making better use of a company's spatial space capacity, it also helps to identify which employees need relocation or transformation of their workplace to improve their experience and, in the end, their bottom line.
Technologies to facilitate communication and collaboration
Interaction between professionals is a key factor in the employee experience. With new technologies, communication and collaboration can be improved for any work task.
However, the possibilities are vast. It is important to choose the most suitable platforms according to each company's needs and characteristics, involve employees in their integration, and get continuous feedback to identify improvements, alternatives, and cost-effectiveness.
Process automation and its effect on experience
Business digitalization has increased the tasks and processes that any employee has to perform during the working day. This allows for optimized control of all the work done, but it also takes time out of the working day and means more stress for the professional.
As a result, process automation systems have been developed. These systems are increasingly better integrated into companies, especially with regard to standard functions that can be found in any office.
Process automation is one of the most useful tools for improving the employee experience. It frees the employee from various repetitive tasks, reduces margins of error, and allows the professional to focus on other objectives with a more immediate or obvious reward.
Relationship between employee experience and productivity
Employee experience is a factor that is inextricably linked to employee productivity. Therefore, improving all aspects related to it will imply profitability that the company will enjoy both in the short and long term:
- Employee satisfaction will be associated with a greater commitment by a company that cares about this aspect.
- Motivation, one of the essential elements of productivity, will be maintained at a higher level.
- Obstacles at work also affect the employee experience. Obstacles on the job are distractions or impediments. Eliminating them helps the professional perform his work better and in less time.
Future trends in employee experience management
The analysis of the employee experience continues to evolve and, therefore, establishes trends that gradually have greater weight in the strategies of any company:
- New technologies are being introduced rapidly in companies, with Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence as the main focus for future developments.
- Sustainability is also more strongly associated with the experience of employees who prefer to work in companies committed to the environment.
- The new generations will inevitably evolve the needs linked to an optimal employee experience, requiring companies to adapt.
- The employee, and in particular, his or her comfort in the company at all levels, becomes more important and becomes a key element for a company to be competitive.

