Workplace cultures need a makeover like never before

At the heart of every great business are great people. And it’s easy to forget that behind every sale, every email, every social media post, and every purchase is a person finding their place in the world.

We increasingly hear buzzwords like ‘workplace wellness’ and ‘mental health’, but are business leaders genuinely concerned with their employees wellbeing or merely trying to appease them to protect their image and bottom-line? Despite the best of intentions, what business leaders often fail to realize is without people, there is no bottom-line, period.

There will inevitably come a day, perhaps sooner than we realize, when machines will take their rightful place, but even then, we don’t cease to be human. Productivity is one thing, but higher, ethical and moral principles will still have their part to play.

It’s sometimes easy to forget that humans are not machines, so they shouldn’t be treated as such.

The reimagined workplace

So what then, is the ideal environment for humans to flourish and does this environment have merits in the workplace? It’s nature, but tamed, in perfect harmony. It’s not a wild jungle, but rather a controlled environment, yet not divorced from its essence.

In Eden, you reap what you sow. There’s a direct link between effort and reward. You get out what you put in. There’s no bias, no politics, it is, what it is.

To thrive you must know your place, understand that the garden exists to serve some higher purpose. Humility is a feature to flourish there. Eden is not just about harvesting fruit, but ensuring what’s harvested is nourishing to those that taste its fruit.

Eden may seem an unattainable utopia, and in some ways it is. But there are practical lessons it can teach us about ourselves, the workplace, and how we interact with our environment and others.

What business owners should take in

For business leaders, Eden is an idea to aspire to when creating a successful workplace.

To achieve this success there’s many points to consider:

It’s a pivotal time in history, a time of great awakening and a time of mass resignations. It’s also a time of technological progress that goes to the heart of what it means to be human.

Business leaders now have a unique opportunity to rethink everything. As Charles Darwin put it, it’s not the strongest that survive, but those that are most adaptable to change.