Establish Workplace Communication With An Acrylic Suggestion Box
Friday, March 28th, 2008Employee input is critical to maintaining a happy and healthy work atmosphere, but today’s employers are sometimes unsure of how to get honest feedback out of their workers. Often employees don’t want to give suggestions or offer criticism in fear that it will reflect negatively upon them.
A great way to combat this problem is to offer a solution that allows for anonymity so that all suggestions heard are completely unbiased and employees don’t have any fear of reprisals. Implementing a suggestion box in your workplace will help solve the problem of miscommunication between management and staff. In turn, employees will feel more valued and appreciated, and thus the workplace environment will become happier and possibly even more productive.
Acrylic Suggestion Box
Now that we’ve established the usefulness of having a suggestion box in the workplace, it’s important to quantify what kind of suggestion box is best. Using an opaque, wooden box is not recommended for a suggestion box as no one wants to be the only one making suggestions. If it’s impossible to see into the suggestion box your employees are more likely to be intimidated by the process and your chance at establishing an honest dialogue with your workers will be gone.
On the other hand, using a clear, acrylic suggestion box will foster communication and really add untold benefits to your business. Some of the advantages of using a clear acrylic suggestion box are:
Visibility
– Employees can see suggestions in the box, and might be inspired to make their own.
Trust
– Since workers can see the slips of paper in the clear acrylic suggestion box, they know that they’ll be looked at in a prompt manner. There isn’t a chance of some suggestion sitting there for months because no one knows it’s there. There also isn’t the opportunity for a suggestion getting lost, because it would be noticed very quickly, and would be rectified immediately.
Accountability
– If the clear, acrylic suggestion box isn’t being utilized, then it’s very easy for management to deal with any criticisms of the workplace. Employees can no longer say that management doesn’t listen to them, or that their feedback is ignored because, if they aren’t using the suggestion box, they’re the ones responsible for not communicating with their supervisors.
Achieving Workplace Communication
• Empowerment – Employees will start to feel their contributions are valued, and might start working outside the scope of their job to better serve the organization.
Using an acrylic suggestion box in your office will really change the way your workplace interacts. Proper communication and dialogue will become established and it will lead to a more happy, healthy and productive environment.






