The Benefits of Play for Corporate Employees

“Do you still play? With other adults (not just your kids)? A strange question? Did you know that we learn best when we’re playing?”

The importance ofCorporate Employees Play

Many dot-com companies have long recognized the link between productivity and a fun work environment. Some encourage play and creativity by offering art or yoga classes, throwing regular parties, providing games such as Foosball or ping pong, or encouraging recess-like breaks during the workday for employees to play and let off steam. These companies know that more play at work results in more productivity, higher job satisfaction, greater workplace morale, and a decrease in employees skipping work and staff turnover.

If you’re fortunate enough to work for such a company, embrace the culture; if your company lacks the play ethic, you can still inject your own sense of play into breaks and lunch hours. Keep a camera or sketch pad on hand and take creative breaks when you can. Joke with coworkers during coffee breaks, relieve stress at lunch by shooting hoops, playing cards, or completing word puzzles together. It can strengthen the bond you have with your coworkers as well as improve your job performance. For people with mundane jobs, maintaining a sense of play can make a real difference to the work day by helping to relieve boredom.

Games may seem like an interesting addition to the normally hectic workday, but they are ripe with benefits that every HR professional will approve of. By allowing your team to play more games at the office

The benefits of play

As Mary Poppins says, “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and snap! The job’s a game! And every task you undertake, becomes a piece of cake.” It’s totally true. When employees are having fun, everything else seems to fall into place. Let them play more games and you will see that you can build a productive and fun work environment.

You can play on your own or with a pet, but for greater benefits, play should involve at least one other person, away from the sensory-overload of electronic gadgets.