Wellness At Work Strategies For Healthier Happier Employees

Wellness at Work: Strategies for Healthier, Happier Employees is a comprehensive guide that delves into the multifaceted aspects of workplace wellness. This book offers practical insights and actionable strategies to improve the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of employees. Covering essential topics such as work-life balance, organizational culture, financial wellness, and personal development, it provides a holistic approach to fostering a healthier work environment. With real-world case studies and evidence-based practices, this guide is an invaluable resource for HR professionals, managers, and anyone committed to enhancing employee wellbeing and organizational success. Whether you're looking to start a wellness program or enhance an existing one, this book will help you create a thriving workplace where employees can truly flourish.

"Helps business owners and managers target the main health concerns in the workplace and implement low-cost or free programs to increase productivity, boost morale, lower workplace stress, and potentially lower health insurance costs"--

A smarter framework for designing more effective workplace wellness programs Workplace Wellness That Works provides a fresh perspective on how to promote employee well-being in the workplace. In addressing the interconnectivity between wellness and organizational culture, this book shows you how to integrate wellness into your existing employee development strategy in more creative, humane, and effective ways. Based on the latest research and backed by real-world examples and case studies, this guide provides employers with the tools they need to start making a difference in their employees' health and happiness, and promoting an overall culture of well-being throughout the organization. You'll find concrete, actionable advice for tackling the massive obstacle of behavioral change, and learn how to design and implement an approach that can most benefit your organization. Promoting wellness is a good idea. Giving employees the inspiration and tools they need to make changes in their lifestyles is a great idea. But the billion-dollar question is: what do they want, what do they need, and how do we implement programs to help them without causing more harm than good? Workplace Wellness That Works shows you how to assess your organization's needs and craft a plan that actually benefits employees. Build an effective platform for well-being Empower employees to make better choices Design and deliver the strategy that your organization needs Drive quantifiable change through more creative implementation Today's worksite wellness industry represents a miasma of competing trends, making it nearly impossible to come away with tangible solutions for real-world implementation. Harnessing a broader learning and development framework, Workplace Wellness That Works skips the fads and shows you how to design a smarter strategy that truly makes a difference in employees' lives—and your company's bottom line.

Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profits Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways: Well-being leads to health and high performance Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health Leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeing In addition to proving highly effective, these approaches represent a fraction of the cost sunk into traditional wellness and engagement programs. The book explains how to create a workplace that is good for people, releases them to what they do best and enjoy most, and produces great and profitable work. • Find actionable strategies and tactics you can put into use today • Retain happy, productive talent • Cut unnecessary spending and boost your bottom line • Benefit from real-world research and proven practice If you’re a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you’ll want to have on hand.

Workplace Wellness Programs: Promoting Employee Health and Wellbeing is an essential guide for employers and HR professionals seeking to enhance the health and productivity of their workforce. This comprehensive book covers every aspect of designing, implementing, and sustaining effective wellness programs, from physical health initiatives and mental health support to financial wellness and creating a healthy work environment. With practical strategies, real-world case studies, and insights into the latest technology and trends, this book provides the tools and knowledge needed to create a thriving workplace where employees can achieve their best both personally and professionally. Whether you are starting from scratch or looking to improve existing programs, this book is your roadmap to fostering a culture of wellness and success.

Learn how to improve the well-being of your employees that will ultimately boost your company’s bottom line. Studies show that unhealthy work habits, like staring at computer screens and rushing through fast-food lunches, are taking a toll in the form of increased absenteeism, lost productivity, and higher insurance costs. But should companies intervene with these individual problems? And if so, how? The Healthy Workplace says yes! Companies that learn how to incorporate healthy habits and practices into the workday for their employees will see such an impressive ROI that they’ll kick themselves for not starting these practices sooner. Packed with real-life examples and the latest research, this all-important resource reveals how to: Create a healthier, more energizing environment Reduce stress to enhance concentration Inspire movement at work Support better sleep Heighten productivity without adding hours to the workday Filled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan, The Healthy Workplace proves that a company cannot afford to miss out on the ROI of investing in their employees’ well-being.

Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.

A definitive, trend-setting guide to corporate wellness The U.S. workforce continues to be unhealthy and insurance premiums continue to rise year after year. This statement has been received loud and clear and now corporations, especially large ones, are stepping up to the plate and providing wellness initiatives to benefit their employees. The reality is that a well-designed wellness program can go a long way in creating a healthier and more productive workforce, while reducing claim costs. Once claims are reduced, premiums reduce as well. The scale of most programs is expanding exponentially as human resource managers and C-suite executives recognize that people are their most precious commodity and asset. With this expansion from a first aid kit and worker safety practices to onsite fitness centers, immunizations, and screening for major diseases, corporations are setting the bar high. As a result, employees are healthier, happier, more productive, and tend to stay in their jobs longer. It's a win-win for everyone. And it's a direct positive return on investment for the corporate bottom line. This timely book is about the trend toward comprehensive workplace wellness programs. When properly structured and implemented, these initiatives have a huge positive impact on employee health and a major reduction in the cost of medical claims. Human resource directors and benefits managers are taking note, as this new reality is vital for the health of employees as well as the financial health of the companies for which they work. Corporate wellness programs consistently result in healthier employee populations. And more often than not, these programs more than pay for themselves. The relevance of this book is inescapable. With health costs soaring, the more an incidence of disease can be avoided or minimized, the more productive the workforce, the happier the employees, and the greater a company's cost savings. All this leads to an impressive return on investment (ROI) for corporate wellness. Biometric numbers for employees are measurable, as are the cost savings for companies that implement wellness programs. While the numbers play an important part, benefits go way beyond monetary savings to increased goodwill and workplace satisfaction. This book reveals the importance of corporate wellness in worksites, and also provides information for employees about their part in the process-through awareness, knowledge, education, and incremental lifestyle modifications, employees hold the keys to their own and their companies' well-being. The message must reach upper management too, as executive engagement is essential for the success of corporate wellness programs. Without support from those at the top, most employees will not feel like the program is important. But if the CEO is out walking with employees and counting steps, or personally handing out rewards and incentives to those who reach goals and milestones, employees become more engaged. This book is indispensable for those in leadership positions, managers, and others looking to improve the experience of the places we spend the majority of our waking hours-our jobs, our careers, our workplace communities.

Studies have shown that happier employees are better employees - increasing productivity anywhere from 12% - 20% - but how can employers make sure their employees are happy? One answer may seem obvious: focus on employee health. If your employees are not healthy, it is hard for them to be happy. Healthy employees are less likely to call off work for sickness, companies that promote health have a greater percentage of employees at work every day, healthy employees are less likely to miss work to care for a loved one, and workplace health programs can reduce presenteeism, which is when an employee is "present" at work yet not being productive. Packed with real-life examples and the latest research, this all-important resource reveals how to: - Create a healthier, more energizing environment - Reduce stress to enhance concentration - Inspire movement at work - Support better sleep - Heighten productivity without adding hours to the workday - And more filled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan This book proves that a company cannot afford to miss out on the ROI of investing in their employees' well-being.

Studies have shown that happier employees are better employees - increasing productivity anywhere from 12% - 20% - but how can employers make sure their employees are happy? One answer may seem obvious: focus on employee health. If your employees are not healthy, it is hard for them to be happy. Healthy employees are less likely to call off work for sickness, companies that promote health have a greater percentage of employees at work every day, healthy employees are less likely to miss work to care for a loved one, and workplace health programs can reduce presenteeism, which is when an employee is "present" at work yet not being productive. Packed with real-life examples and the latest research, this all-important resource reveals how to: - Create a healthier, more energizing environment - Reduce stress to enhance concentration - Inspire movement at work - Support better sleep - Heighten productivity without adding hours to the workday - And more filled with tips for immediate improvement and guidelines for building a long-term plan This book proves that a company cannot afford to miss out on the ROI of investing in their employees' well-being.