Manage HR Magazine | Thursday, June 17, 2021
Fremont, CA: Increasingly, employers are making workplace wellness a priority for their employees. In order to understand where we're headed, we need to look at the key trends arising from COVID-19's disruptions, transformations, and volatility over the last three years.
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A four-day workweek has been a great success for both staff and organizations in many countries. In addition to helping individuals feel more connected with their employers, this shift also helps them keep a better work-life balance - critical to their professional wellbeing.
Acknowledging the Pervasive Sense of Fatigue
In the wake of two years of anxiety and uncertainty, if there's one thing we're all feeling, it's exhaustion. As employers and employees have gone through tremendous changes, it's had a huge impact on our mental and physical health. Businesses will have to implement workplace wellness tactics to combat this fatigue and weariness. As a safe place to talk about mental health issues, offer your team employee assistance programs (EAPs).
A Focus on Financial Wellness
People who are financially well are more likely to miss nearly two times as many days a year than their coworkers if they have concerns about their finances. Financial wellness is a top trend as fears of a recession loom over the workforce. Workshops are a quick and affordable way to start a financial wellness program. Plus, you can offer online education, customized training, and on-demand financial consulting.
PTO Innovation
UPTO, introduced by tech companies like Netflix, is gaining popularity among traditional institutions. To keep employees from getting too little time off, it's important to have clear vacation guidelines. To promote professional wellness, employers need to foster trust, recuperation, and self-rejuvenation and be creative with paid time off. Employees can also volunteer more if vacation days are limited and social impact time off is unlimited.
Supporting Caregivers
The "sandwich generation" will become a major wellness trend, as advances in medicine and socio-economic changes mean they'll have a hard time caring for others. Taking care of these responsibilities can impair your work-life balance and negatively impact your mental health. To fix this, caregiving services, like alternative care and tuition discounts, can be offered. Furthermore, you should give family members who have advanced medical conditions paid and unpaid time off.
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