Employee wellness and wellbeing

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by Rebecca Lister | 16th Dec 2024

Employee wellness and wellbeing should be a top priority for employers. Happy and healthy employees are crucial in helping your business to thrive.

Wellbeing relates to someone’s overall emotional, mental, financial and physical health. There are many things that may affect an employee’s workplace wellbeing, including leadership, workload, motivation and feeling a lack of support.

Prioritising employee’s workplace wellness and wellbeing goes a long way in ensuring that you are promoting a positive workplace culture.

Employees who feel looked out for and supported are more productive and more likely to remain at the company for a long time. Employee wellness and wellbeing is also crucial in ensuring that employees are able to sustain their working practices.

A recent study by Mind has revealed that 60% of employees feel that they would be motivated and more likely to talk positively about their organisation being a good place to work, if their employer put in place actions to support mental and financial wellbeing. Looking to invest in your employee’s wellbeing is a good way to boost morale and increase motivation. There are numerous ways you can do this.

Support Systems

Having effective workplace wellness programs in place is crucial in ensuring you are looking after your employee’s wellbeing in a supportive work environment. But just having systems in place is not enough, you should actively make your employees aware of any support in place and where and how they can get access to this.

Training staff as Mental Health Support Champions is a great way to make staff feel their issues will be taken seriously by someone who knows how to handle sensitive situations. Raising awareness of the importance of looking after your mental health goes a long way to ensuring everybody feels supported.

Recognition

One of the most effective ways you can help to support staff and thus improve their wellness and wellbeing is by ensuring that the good work they do for your company is recognised. By recognising the positive contribution your staff are making, you are helping to promote a positive culture.

When people feel valued in their work, they are more likely to feel more motivation and gain enjoyment out of the work they are doing. Spreading positivity as part of wellness initiatives will go a long way to making everybody feel happy and supported in the workplace.

Get Everyone Involved

Involving staff in discussions about employee wellness and wellbeing is a great way for you to find out what more you and your company can be doing to make sure everybody feels supported. Opening up discussions on employee experience and listening to employee feedback is a great way to make your employees feel listened to and respected and demonstrates how you are prioritising your workforce.

Culture

The culture of a workplace can play a key role in the wellbeing of staff. Ensuring you are committed to creating a positive and safe environment for your staff will transform your company. Emphasising a good work-life balance and ensuring that you are imposing reasonable work hours goes a long way to promoting a positive culture.

Social Value Activities

The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, so ensuring that the workplace is filled with positive working relationships is important to support employee health and wellbeing. Fun social activities are a great way for staff to bond and get to know one another. These can range from organised quiz nights to team day outs and can have a big impact on your staff’s job satisfaction and morale as well as help increase productivity.

Introducing an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) committee may also go a long way into helping employee wellbeing. Staff led groups allow individuals to work together with ideas of social value at their heart.

Whether this is looking at ways your company can be more sustainable or be more involved in the community, getting staff working together on positive projects outside of their usual work, is a great way for them to feel deeply involved in the running of your company and goes towards creating a positive experience for all.

Introduce Benefits

Looking to introduce certain benefits may also be a great way to improve employee wellbeing and wellness. Whether this be in the form of health insurance or discounted gym memberships, these can all have a positive impact on your staff and make them feel more appreciated.

In conclusion, employee wellness and wellbeing are an area of key importance for employers. Ensuring you are prioritising your workforce goes a long way in ensuring you are promoting a positive work culture and benefits everyone in the long run.

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