How to create a happier work environment in 5 steps

A recent report by England’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, revealed more than 440,000 cases of work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2015 costing the UK economy up to an estimated £100billion.

So what can companies do to create a happier workplace?

Workspace designer, Guy Crabb, Managing Director at ODB Group, says there are a number of simple ways that organisations can change their office surroundings to encourage productivity, wellbeing and staff retention.

“Health and wellbeing tops the corporate agenda – but – while employees benefit from health and fitness programmes, flexible working and workplace counselling, the physical working environment has been slow to adjust,” he says. “I believe the answer lies around us. The physical environment has a huge part to play in how we feel at work.