Employees spend one-third or more of every workday at the workplace. If they are uncomfortable during these long hours, it can take a toll on their emotional health. Hence, as an employer, you need to ensure a safe and comfortable working environment to protect your employees’ emotional health, overall well-being, engagement, and productivity.

Let’s take a look at some tips that can help you ensure your employees’ emotional health and maintain a positive workplace culture:

Avoid the Blame-Game

Employees come to the workplace because they need their job. They are always aware of performance metrics and how they can achieve their professional goals. Hence, if they make a mistake at work, they don’t do it intentionally or deliberately.

Employers and managers often drive away hardworking employees by blaming employees. As an employer, if you believe an employee isn’t working efficiently, try training them or providing them with constructive feedback to improve their work.

If they still don’t improve, consider letting them go instead of blaming them for doing a bad job. There are greater chances of HR personnel hiring the wrong person for the job instead of the employee intentionally making mistakes at work.

Moreover, a positive workplace culture can only be maintained with a solution-oriented approach. Employees will always make mistakes; it is up to the employers to find solutions and train employees while implementing those solutions.

Understand their Issues

Employers and managers need to remember that employees have personal lives. While they may not discuss what is going on in their personal lives, employees’ emotional health can be affected. This emotional health can worsen at work if their issues aren’t understood.

As an employer, allow your employees to show their humanity at the workplace. Get to know them to find out how you can make them comfortable at the workplace.

For example, many employees can benefit from a flexible schedule or working from home during a sickness. Employees can also benefit from taking paid time off to sort out their domestic issues. Letting employees maintain a work-life balance during emergencies or tough domestic situations can greatly increase their comfort at the workplace and earn their loyalty.

Pay Heed to their Ideas

Understanding that every employee can contribute positively to the workplace can greatly help employers maintain positive workplace culture. As an employer, you can include your employees in decision-making and brainstorming sessions to make them feel trusted in their skills.

Besides increasing their comfort level at the workplace by getting involved in activities, it also helps increase employee motivation and productivity. Employees feel seen and acknowledged for their skills, and they strive to keep getting noticed.

Including employees in brainstorming and decision-making processes also greatly benefits the organization. At times, high-level executives and owners can lose the organization’s vision from the ground level. Listening to ideas from junior-level employees can help them keep their vision grounded.

Happiness is Growth

Finally, open communication is the key to building a safe working environment where employees’ emotional health can improve. When employees feel happy and healthy at work, they look forward to spending time at the workplace and contributing to its growth.