Lessons From a Tech Titan: “Creating a fantastic working environment will yield more work product from your staff just as if you had paid them more”

Sometimes left-brained guys — like me — tend to try and put everything they do in a metaphorical spreadsheet. If it can’t be quantified, then it can’t be real. So here is a way I suggest you measure the value of a good working environment and quantify the increase in employee effectiveness it creates. I suggest viewing the monetary compensation we provide as the “hard utility” and the psychic or cultural value we provide as “soft utility.” And while soft utility doesn’t appear directly in our income statement, the impact of soft utility directly correlates to our employees’ output. Creating a fantastic working environment will yield more work product from your staff just as if you had paid them more.