{"id":7145,"date":"2011-06-12T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:07:41","slug":"great-workplaces-make-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/great-workplaces-make-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Workplaces Make More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An analysis by Fortune magazine this year, based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatplacetowork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Great Workplace surveys<\/a>, gives very firm evidence that they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortune tracked the stock price of companies from 1998, the first year the Great Workplaces list was published, to 2010. Each year the investment was reset to match the latest list (ie, shares of companies dropping out of the list were sold and those of companies joining the list were bought). The result over the 12 years was clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average annual return on the Great Workplace companies was 10.06%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average annual return on the US stock market (S&amp;P 500) was just 3.83%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that if you had invested \u00a310,000 in 1998 in the Great Workplace list you would have ended up with \u00a331,590 by 2010. If you had simply tracked the stock market, you would have got only \u00a315,700. So investing in Great Workplaces would have reaped a profit of \u00a321,590, almost four times the \u00a35,700 profit from following the stock market as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies frequently state that their aim is to maximise shareholder value. This analysis is a powerful statement that the best way to do that is to focus on creating a great workplace, where your people are trusted and valued.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceotribe.com\/developing-your-direct-reports\/building-trust\/leading-influence-balance-warmth-strength\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As the Great Place to Work Institute says<\/a>, \u201cour data shows that building workplace trust is the best investment your company can make.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So: How would your workplace be different if the focus was on building trust and creating a great workplace? The evidence is, if you want financial success, that is where you need to put your attention. (And, if you are investing your savings or pension, you couldn\u2019t do better than putting it into companies that are truly great workplaces.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\n\/blogs\/happy-staff-are-more-productive\/\n\n\n\" \n\ntarget=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/p>\n<p>last week<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>about the academic research that showed how happy workplaces are more productive. But what if we look purely in cold financial terms. Do they still perform better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,25],"tags":[],"blog-post-type":[35],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-henrys-blog","category-leadership","category-the-happy-manifesto","blog-post-type-blog-with-image"],"acf":{"read_or_watch_time":"Read length: 5 min read"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great Workplaces Make More Money - Happy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/great-workplaces-make-more-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great Workplaces Make More Money\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I wrote   last week  about the academic research that showed how happy workplaces are more productive. 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