Fiksuruoka is a Great Place To Work™

Fiksuruoka has participated in the Great Place to Work -survey yearly starting in 2020. Companies that do well in the GPTW survey, will earn a GPTW certificate for having a great company culture! But what is more important to us, is to be able to choose wise development actions to make our employee experience even better according to the GPTW data!

“We want to be the best workplace for our employees. In accordance with our value of data-driven decision-making, we want to make decisions about building a good workplace also based on data,” says our CHRO, Tiina.

In accordance with our value of data-driven decision-making, we want to make decisions about building a good workplace also based on data. – Tiina, CHRO

“We use the data from the research to take the right development actions. The research results have been presented to all employees openly and we consider action points together. All ideas are welcome, whether they are at the level of an individual, a team or the entire organization – in order to be the best workplace for all our employees, we must all work for it together,” Tiina continues.

So, the goals for this are set high every year, but it is even more important for us to get hold of the right data and thereby make the right action point choices!

Our culture according to the GPTW research in 2021 – What is great and what have we taken action on in 2022?

In 2021, 31 out of our 54 people took part in the survey. According to the results, Fiksuruoka is 93 % a Great Place to Work, meaning that 100 % would be perfect.

Three of the most important strengths in our culture are:

• I fell I can make a difference here (100 %)
• I feel good about the ways we contribute to the community (100 %)
• Management recognizes honest mistakes as part of doing business (100 %)
  

The things that seem to need improvement are really taken into consideration – the data also shows that! Compared to the results in 2020, the biggest improvements had been done in:

• Work life balance (90 % now, 7 % better than last year)
• Treating people equally regardless of the position (97 % now, 8 % better than last year)
• Celebrating special events (87 % now, 22 % better than last year)
  

A concrete step we have already taken to make our working environment better is that we have opened a new, top notch office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki in November 2022!

Our biggest needs for improvement this year have been:

• Getting a new office
• Benefits and occupational health care
• Professional development
• Salary / compensation

We’re working on these and focusing a lot of initiatives to make these things better.

So “Our facilities contribute to a good working environment” was a point in the survey that had decreased the most compared to last year – that’s why we chose that as a special focus point for this year. A concrete step we have already taken to make our working environment better is that we have opened a new, top notch office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki in November 2022!

Building a company culture based on trust is a strategic choice for us.

Why did we decide to participate in the Great Place to Work survey in the first place?

1. Building a company culture based on trust is a strategic choice for us. In a good workplace, the organization's goals are achieved by people who want to do their best and work as a team in an atmosphere of trust.
2. In fact, at the heart of a good workplace is how much employees feel they trust their managers, how proud they are of the work they do and their workplace, and to what extent they enjoy working with their colleagues.
3. We as a company want to get the annual employee insights to be able to understand our employees needs better and to allow us all to develop our workplace to be the Best place to work for all of us.
4. Also, we want to understand and get the benchmark from the market and learn from other companies best practices!

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