Capita Health and Wellbeing Event

Work Smart Work Savvy had a great time yesterday at the Capita Health and Wellbeing Event sharing the room with many fitness clubs, gyms, the National Trust, a choir, beauticians, charities and more...

Recent research has shown that greater productivity is more likely to come when employees feel happy and well supported in their work rather than when a bumper bonus carrot is dangled in front of them. 
(The Times 30/10/14)

Work Smart Work Savvy posed the question to the staff visiting our stand;

WHAT FLOATS YOUR WORK BOAT?

Autonomy Feeling you have control and the freedom to be creative

Money Feeling that you will be paid a bumper bonus for the work you're doing

Purpose Feeling that you're contributing to something worthwhile

Mastery Feeling you have the time and resources to improve and excel

Each visiter to the Work Smart Work Savvy stand was given a small boat with which to vote!  The Capita staff gave the options plenty of thought and quite often a fair bit of discussion before choosing which port (bucket!) to float their voting boat! 

I can now reveal that the results for this very exciting and hugely scientific survey have been checked and independently verified....drum roll......

Ta da!!

45% of staff stated that their main motivator at work was Purpose, (feeling that you're contributing to something worthwhile).

In second place with Capita staff was  Money with 29%, (feeling that you will be paid a bumper bonus for the work you're doing), choosing this as their top motivator.  Although many admitted that they felt they were unlikely to get a "bumper bonus", many did say that it was the salary that was the motivator to get them out of bed in the morning and into work.

Autonomy, (feeling you have control and the freedom to be creative) was next with 14% of the vote.

Closely followed by Mastery, (feeling you have the time and resources to improve and excel) with 12% .

Thank you to everyone at Capita who took part in the "What Floats Your Work Boat?" survey, who stopped for a chat and who took a Work Smart Work Savvy postcard.