Statement:-

Enormous effort is put into researching and marketing “the perfect potato crisp” while research into stress at work, for example, is ignored.

How important are staff working conditions? Should employees research and improve the working conditions of their staff or should they concentrate more on their product.

Essay:-

The competition between different organizations is sky rocketing due to an increase in a number of products and brands in the market place. To win this product war, companies mostly concentrate on pressurizing their employees in order to get desired results and often less effort is made to improve employees working conditions. In this essay, I will give an overview of the importance of the product development and how it is affected if employees working conditions are poor.

The world has become extremely dynamic with the rapidly changing technology and environment. In this environment, the survivors are the ones who anticipate the change and work hard in order to achieve new targets. So, the importance of product development is crystal clear. Without this companies cannot survive. I take an example of telecommunication industry. With every passing year we hear of a new generation of technology coming to market. The machines of past are becoming history and new machines replace the old ones that are much faster and cheaper. In order to come up with the new products employees usually feel stress and this is boosted once their working conditions are poor.

The working conditions of the employees directly affect their work. Long sittings, hundreds of calls, management pressure and customer requirements make them stressful. The result is a reduced efficiency at work place. Many employees become ill due to this stress and can affect the support for products which are in development stage. Other than this, their personal life is disturbed when they can’t get any time for it.

Although the product development is important for organization’s survival yet the working conditions matter a lot. Companies need to put more effort in improving the working conditions. I am sure if they do this, they will get far better outcome in the form of improved efficiency of their employees and as a result a competitive product.