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As the number of jobs in Lithuania grows, more and more employers are complaining about the lack of highly qualified employees. In order to attract them, companies have to make a lot of efforts to offer specialists a workplace worthy of attention. When choosing a new job, specialists pay attention not only to competitive salary, the opportunity to learn and improve in their field, flexible work schedule, but the workplace itself is also gaining increasing importance – its comfort, environment, recreation areas and other office solutions.
As the number of jobs in Lithuania grows, more and more employers are complaining about the lack of highly qualified employees. In order to attract them, companies have to make considerable efforts to offer specialists a worthy workplace. When choosing a new job, specialists pay attention not only to competitive salary, the opportunity to learn and improve in their field, flexible work schedule, but the workplace itself is also gaining increasing importance – its comfort, environment, recreation areas and other office solutions.
“It is important to understand that employees value not only working time, but also the time they spend commuting to work. More and more people, in order to avoid rush hour traffic, are choosing to travel to work by bicycle or public transport instead of a car. For this reason, most new business centers are being built in places with sufficiently developed infrastructure, and bicycle storage, changing rooms and showers are being installed next to the building for employees,” says Giedrius Brūzgė, Director of the Asset Management Department at the real estate company Eika.
According to a representative of the company building the business center “135” on Žalgirio Street, the staff must also feel comfortable at the workplace – in new business centers, much attention is paid to ventilation, air humidification and proper temperature. “Dust, dry air or improper temperature in work areas harm the well-being of employees, and therefore their productivity. When solving the problem of noise, separate spaces are allocated for telephone conversations, individual and team work, which ensure that employees will not interfere with each other. Standing meeting spaces are often installed in offices, which surprisingly shorten the time of meetings and improve their efficiency,” says G. Brūzgė.
Employee recreation areas are also extremely important – there is a noticeable trend that the rooms with the best view from the window are allocated not to the manager’s office, but to the staff kitchen or recreation area. Managers often make quite unconventional decisions in recreation areas that improve employee engagement and motivation – they install football tables here, connect computer and other games, and sometimes even musical instruments. During breaks, employees can rest and chat with each other, breathe fresh air on the roof terrace or in the green courtyard. This helps them not only to work more smoothly in a team, but also to more successfully resolve stressful situations that arise during work and feel greater satisfaction with their work.
About the Eika group of companies
Founded in 1992, EIKA is one of the largest real estate development and construction groups in Lithuania, successfully developing residential, commercial, public and other purpose building projects, creating a new quality of life and work. The company has already built more than 3,750 apartments and 320 thousand square meters of buildings. Eika has been awarded many times as the best real estate developer in Lithuania, and the company’s projects “Santariškių namai” and “Eika namai Pilaitė” have also become the best in Lithuania.
More information:
Giedrius Bruzge
Lep Director of Asset Management Department
Phone: +370 5 251 4252
Mobile: +370 626 24619
Email: [email protected]