Building the best high tech company to work for by Kent Alstad @kentalstad #devsum13
Speaker deck: http://devsum.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Kent-Alstad-The-Best-Company-to-Work-For.pdf Happy people tend to be more productive people. In the 100 best companies to work for, we find highly profitable companies, such as Google. Why is it, that happy companies produce better results? Happy people get more engaged . Employees who feel engaged, tend to do better jobs and are more willing to put in the extra hours. Another thing about engagement, is retention. People are less likely to leave a company that they are engaged in. For consultant companies, this is important, since you don't want your consultant to leave you for your customer. In a product company, engagement can be the difference between a successful product, or no product at all. The thing is, that engagement also renders more profitability. The companies at the top of the best workplaces to work for, actually make more money than the average company. It's okay to be happy at wor