With rapid technological advances and speedy updates of trends and news, more modern-age employers have put an amount of emphasis on wellness at work. With mental and physical health issues on the rise due to stress overload, it is the responsibility of all of us to keep each other’s mental well-being in check.
To start off, we need to understand what is Workplace Wellness.
Generally speaking, workplace wellness refers to a work environment conducive to the health and well-being of all employees and others within it. Of course, there is also the idea that employees themselves can create and cultivate workplace wellness in their own right. This can be facilitated by focusing on better eating habits, promoting more movement throughout the workday, and developing crucial wellness habits such as mindfulness, yoga, and meditation. (Anahana Wellness)
Now, why is Workplace Wellness important to both employees and employers alike?
- To Have the Ability to Properly Manage Stress
- Being able to educate employees about stress management is essential for every employer. Working in any industry in this world, there will always be work stress, as it is something unerasable, we need to learn how to properly manage it to avoid work burnout, then causing it to take a toll on our physical and mental health.
- To Improve Productivity
- Being able to properly handle stress will result in better time and workload management. Hence, self-productivity in daily life will eventually improve. If one’s productivity level is enhanced, not only are the incoming workloads more manageable, but company income will eventually be increased as well.
How do we practice workplace wellness then?
- Survey and Understand.
- Start off by sending out surveys to employees and the team, to better understand their needs and wants. What could be improved in terms of the workplace conditions? What kind of activities do they prefer doing during in-house training?
- Plan and Strategize.
- After understanding your employee’s needs, it is time to come up with a practical method or plan to properly improve working conditions. Research on leisure activities or consult experts on proper know-hows on the methods of improving workplace wellness.
- Launch Your Plan!
- Plan a suitable time, date and place to carry out these planned wellness activities. If the plan is to improve workplace conditions, find a day where there are fewer employees in the office to properly make the necessary changes.
It’s never too late to improve workplace conditions, so start now by doing monthly or annual surveys with your team!