Environment
We can spend a lot of time in the workplace so being in the right environment is critical to your career enjoyment and success. Your work environment could describe physical conditions, such as location, temperature, decor or equipment, or your personal workspace. It can also be related to factors such as work processes and procedures or other aspects of organisational culture.
You could be in the right role but if the environment doesn't suit you, it could lead to your overall unhappiness. Finding the right job in the right environment for you is important, so where you work and under what conditions is something to be explored when making career decisions.
Click on the interactive exercise to view a variety of different working environments. It should take you 2 - 3 minutes. Do you have any preferences for where you would like to work?
Having completed this task and considered which physical working environments might or might not appeal to you, you could also think about other aspects of working environments such as:
- Organisational culture
- Personality or diversity of your colleagues
- Communication style
- Management style
Now watch the following film of a particular working environment.
- How would you feel about working in this environment?
- What appeals/doesn’t appeal to you about the:
- Working space
- Organisational culture
- What would be your preferences when researching or choosing a working environment?
Thinking about the type of environment and the physical working space that you would be happy in on a day-to-day basis could give you more focus when looking into different job roles or working for different organisations.
Based on these activities, think about how important your working environment is to you and ultimately what will make you feel comfortable. This can then form part of your “wish list” when starting to research your options.
