Hopefully hardly working.
This may be easy for a lot of people to believe, but according to the Washington Post, only 13 percent of people worldwide actually like going to work. To many this is just a statistic (insert eye rolling emoticon), but to those who are driven and passionate about what they do, this should be a huge shocker. You spend roughly 25% of your week at work … why wouldn’t you want to at least like what you’re doing? At eQ, we spend a lot of time thinking about this statistic, and what the root cause is:
It’s employee engagement.
As a new team member here at eQ, I see firsthand how pertinent employee engagement is when retaining talent. There is life and energy in every interaction at entreQuest. People are happy to be working and people are engaged in every facet of their daily schedules.
I quickly realized that people here were not working, they were doing what they loved; they were hardly working.
Quickly I took to this approach, and discovered if I immersed myself in this culture and ideology then I would be hardly working as well, and not because I am lazy, but because I want to be driven by a passion. It was easy for me to take to this approach, because eQ did such an amazing job engaging me. Immediately when I walked in on my first day, I was greeted with open arms. My desk had eQ materials, a binder full of eQ literature and a thorough itinerary of what to expect, not just for my first week but also for the first 90 days! There was a personalized welcome card signed by every eQ member and a magnetic sign saying “Welcome to eQ Kelsey!” I felt comfortable and thoroughly driven. More so, in all team huddles and one-on-one meetings I wanted to contribute to the conversation, and I felt totally engaged in every topic of discussion.
At the time of writing this, it is coming to the end of my first week and I am engaged in this organization more so than I could ever have imagined. I look back on my experience with other companies and realize the key ingredient they were missing was employee engagement. People would come in, put in hours and leave. entreQuest is an innovative and collaborative work environment driven by innate talent and passion. People have autonomy here and this contributes to the employee engagement. Less engagement by management and more engagement by peers, mentors, clients, leaders, and one’s self.
At eQ, everyone works hard, but most of us feel like we’re hardly working, because we’re engaged and we love what we do.