Good working environment

We all spend a big part of our lives at our workplaces but I am not sure how many of us find a right kind of company that provides them a good salary and at the same time opportunity to prove their worth. As much I know everyone joins a company hoping to work in a better work environment, earn enough for a good future and last but not the least a good working environment that helps a worker achieve his targets. 

And I when I say good working facilities I mean it. How would you like to work at a place where they provide you with modern facilities like a well equipped gym, a swimming pool, top class canteens with facilities envious to five star cafes, games room, cards room, billiards and table tennis facilities and even a video games station? I have seen few such offices in our own country in cities such as Bangalore and Mumbai. 

I have been reading about corporate companies which provide all facilities to their workers including maternity leaves to both parents, paid holidays for family, education, leave with traveling allowance, free medical assistance, legal facilities, health services, insurance services and helping their employees in further education and/or expert training at company’s expenses. 

Whenever I compare our private sector with word’s top companies like Microsoft, Google or Samsung providing all these facilities and at the same time paying a fat salary packet to their employees I find it really too envious. It’s not that we do not have such companies in our own country but these are too few or maybe in particular sectors but in general we find it astonishing reading about companies like the one diamond company from Surat that distributed flats/cars to its employees at the occasion of Diwali.

The difference of work culture

Probably it’s all about work culture that separates us from other developed countries when it comes to our working environment. I feel the workers working in companies like Google, Microsoft or Samsung have an altogether working mentality with the ones we have in our country especially in government sector which feel they are getting paid far lesser than some of the companies in private sector. They compare with salary and other facilities but never look at their own working standards. 

Let me ask a simple question at this point- how many of government employees would be able to cope with the atmosphere of a private company’s demanding work schedule? It’s easy to ask for right but hard to perform according to standards of private companies. People working with private companies especially in unorganized sector know the problems they face on daily basis working more than government employees work on almost one fifth of salary what the employees of a government sector gets. In any case an average corporate employee works three times more than a government counterpart works.  

Here is another bunch of questions probably no government employee would prefer to answer- why in the first place they joined the government sector despite knowing fully that private sector pays better or why when government tries to handover a particular public/government sector to private sector they make so much noise and immediately threaten government to go on strike? 

Are you ready to compete?

I have a few questions from the bank, railways, electricity and other government sector employees, why do you chose to go on strike whenever the government sends a feeler by sending a message that their department might go to private sector. Is there anyone in the government sector that can tell us what was his contribution taking his organization to next level? I am not sure if there will be a single government worker that will come forward and tell you a single success story because not a single government employee thought that way.

Most of our government workers feel their work ends when they joined the service in the first place now everything is on auto. They will get annual raise, dearness allowance as and when the governments decided to please them, time bound promotions and even bonus at much higher rates than private companies and that too in the departments that have been going in losses constantly for years. Now let me tell you the private companies are not that liberal but pay only when they get a good profit apart from the organized sector that has certain legal obligations.

Are you ready to take challenges?

As a corporate worker I know the companies you work for expect at least 10-20 times in return of what they pay to you. You have to perform you have to give your best as they have an option, a notice of 1-3 months as per service conditions, a check and a pink rose, a sign of goodbye. The companies paying you good expect you to come good at their expectation with hard work, quality performance and finally the results. One has to be mentally tough in order to face challenges. You must be willing to learn constantly new developments in your specific field so that you remain prepared to meet the requirements. 

Conclusion

Private companies are for the people who know the value of work and at the same time ready to help their team-members as well other coworkers. The private companies pay but pay to them who deserve, if you’re willing to work in big companies and take the advantages that I mentioned in the beginning, ask yourself a question- are you ready to meet the challenges? If your answer is yes, you are the one companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Shell, Exxon, Walmart, IBM, Ford, HSBC etc. are looking for. 

Facilities are for the people who know the value of work and when I say work I certainly do not mean you work twenty four hours to prove your worth. You can prove your worth by working same hours as others do but there is a difference in between work and quality work. You translate your work performance in quality of your work and that stands you out of the crowd instantly.