corporate health and wellness | how to raise your workplace standards?
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Corporate Health and Wellness | How to Raise Your Workplace Standards?
Employee Health
Google is the dream company of many. Employees want to work at
Google. But why? Have you heard about the workplace strategies of
Google? According to Investopedia, Google wants to make its
employees’ lives more comfortable. And it’s always searching for
methods of improving the health, wellbeing, and morale of its Googlers.
In modern terminology, this is called “Employee Health.” Corporate
health and wellness are the talks of the town named the corporate
world.
What Exactly is Employee or Corporate Health and Wellness?
Evident by the term itself, employee health is the health of your
employees. Now fitness is not just the absence of illness but the
presence of physical, mental, and social wellness. Thus, employee health is
the disease management for your employees and promoting wellness
and preventive measures for them.
These efforts aim to have healthy, engaged, and foremost, happy
employees at the workplace. The concept of employee health covers
everything which affects any of these factors. These may include
promoting regular exercise and nutritional habits or maintaining a
smoke-free, hygienic, and clean workspace or providing medical
assistance to co-workers.
Your business is lagging from poor employee health
The direct measure of profit or loss for a business is money, which is
second to employee productivity. Unhealthy employees mean loss of
productivity and hence loss of money.
The UK lost €92 billion in 2019 alone due to poor employee health.
There are two types of productivity losses a business suffer due to
employee health
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Absenteeism and Presenteeism
Absenteeism is the absence of employees, i.e., they are on leave. These
may be sick leaves, carer’s leaves, or compensation leaves. It’s easy to
notice and access. Next to it is presenteeism, which is the productivity
loss when the employee is present but not working up to the mark
because of being unwell. And the productivity loss due to presenteeism
can be four times the same due to absenteeism.
Which Benefits? Why is Corporate Health and Wellness Important?
There are many like reduced absenteeism, employee turnover, and an increase in staff morale and productivity.
Let’s discuss employee turnover. Imagine you hire an employee and train him for six months of the work. Later, that trained employee leaves, and you are again looking for another one. This is what we call employee turnover. And as a business, it is a matter to worry about. Turnover leads to a halt in the workflow of at least an entire department, adds costs of hiring new people, and delays delivering work to clients. When an average employee leaves, it costs 33% of their annual salary.
Best Practices for Employee Health Programs
The complete health scheme created for the ultimate motive of a
healthy employee is what we call an employee health program or an
employee health plan. And a plan has many things that one can do for
corporate health and wellness. But these are the ones best suited for
your business. Let’s get into them.
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Cleanliness
In the current situation of coronavirus and re-opening of workplaces,
the importance of cleanliness reaches a new high. Regular disinfection of
touch-prone surfaces is a need of the hour.
Here are some variations that you can make:
Daily collection and disposal of garbage. Also, make sure that the trash is
segregated correctly.
Installation of touch-free hand sanitization systems
Advocacy of Regular Physical Activity
You can cost-effectively promote exercise in employees through regular
physical activity. With today’s workplace culture, the physical aspect
of corporate health and wellness is avoided naturally. We sit in front
of a screen the entire day. This sedentary lifestyle is one of the primary
reasons for health problems nowadays.
Inducing these physical activities in the work style of the company, you
are moving on the path of better employee health.
Healthy Nutrition
Nutrition is as important as exercise. And it is often overlooked in our
race of productivity, but it is not the actual case. Lack of proper nutrition
directly affects the productivity of an individual. Adequate nutrition
provides us with the energy we need to run our body and brain in
coordination for the best outcomes. Healthy nutrition is a must.
These also include promoting healthy habits such as no-screen lunch.
You have your lunch with your eyes away from computers and minds at
ease. Hence the assimilation of nutrition provided by the food is
maximum.
More nutrition = More energy = Unmatched productivity
Smoke-free Workplace
You can maintain a smoke-free environment at your workplace with the
following steps:
Forbid smoking at the workplace and in company vehicles
Organize seminars by collaborating with local doctors for awareness of
the dangers of smoking
Promote quit smoking programs on campus
Remember that smoking reduces more than ten years from a person’s
life, which is indirectly a loss of the power force.
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Incentives and Medical Assistance
These are the efforts requiring a direct investment of chunks of money. The
most common incentive is life insurance. For big businesses, it is legally
required for an employer to provide life insurance to the staff. But even small
companies can step in this territory, and they definitely should. Other than
that, you can provide regular checkups at your place. These may be complete
health checkups or specific checks such as eyesight problems or throat
problems.
You can also provide medical assistance in other ways as well. An example can
be having a partnership with a local hospital for a hassle-free experience for
your employees. One unique technique is to provide fitness bands to make
them aware of their habits.
Mental Health of Your Employee
As we are getting more and more educated on mental health, we are
becoming increasingly aware of the detrimental effects the stress from
office has on an employee. This stress can cause physical ailments, which
we have read above. But it can also put someone in depression or make
someone a regular recipient of anxiety attacks.
And a depressed mind is not able to engage entirely in work costing the
company human resources. Before other actions, the stigma around
mental health issues has to be broken in the office. Encourage lively
discussions around the topic and, in general, about other things in the
company. Train your HRs about mental health strategies and work
towards getting constant work from your employees. But be careful not
to overwork them at the same time.
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