A new year often brings new ideas and a renewed enthusiasm as plans for the coming year take place and start to come to life. Whilst January is notoriously known for being a month where people feel ‘blue,’ with the colder weather and what feels like 6 months to pay day you may feel like the creative spark within your team isn’t shining quite as bright this month.
Boosting team spirit through music
Team spirit and camaraderie are vital at this time of year to bring your people back together after the holidays, and music is a great way to inject some fun into your workplace. Allowing everyone to choose their favourite tracks helps them to feel valued and eases them back into work after an extended break. Adding some fun to the playlists can spark conversations – perhaps a ‘guilty pleasure’ playlist where people can try to guess who chose which song, or a themed playlist from an era like the 80s or 90s can create feelings of nostalgia.
We spoke to The Workplace Depot last year about how they keep their teams in the office and warehouse connected, and how music plays a part in that.
Music in the warehouse
Mikey Doodah who works in the warehouse told us “When we’re working, the first thing we do is put the radio on, it gives everyone a bit of energy in the morning. On the Friday, what I like to do when it’s my turn to pick, I like to play party music, quite upbeat music, just to get ready for the weekend. I feel like it would definitely be a whole different atmosphere at work if there wasn’t any music because obviously it’s just a lot quieter, it just doesn’t feel right.”
Music in the office
Annabelle Earps, based in the main office said “We use music everywhere in the business really, we use it in the office upstairs, we have different stations for all the different teams, so we have customer service, finance and marketing. For myself, working in a creative role, it’s so important to have music on to get you through the days, get you through certain tasks, just excite me a little bit more and get me into that creative space.
A lot of employees can believe that it can be a really huge distraction to their employees, but personally I think it really helps me and really helps everyone else as well. When you go down to the warehouse and they’re playing music, like they were playing Cher a couple of weeks ago, which was just unexpected. I’ve had previous roles where I have dreaded going into work whereas here, it’s really, really a place I enjoy.”
Feeling valued through music
To sum up that feeling of being valued by their employer, Mikey added: “It makes you feel definitely more part of the team and part of a family that they’re paying for TheMusicLicence because it shows that the company does actually care about its employees. They’re willing to spend money on us, so we feel better whilst we’re working.”
The Workplace Depot are getting it right when they play music for their people, hear more from the team there and how important music is to them here.
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