Last spring, SHINE announced a partnership with insurance giant Aetna to survey its workforce about health and wellness, taking pains to consider a comprehensive range of variables such as physical and emotional health, purpose, character strengths, social connectedness, and financial security.
Its workforce is well trained.
If a company pursues health beyond its immediate workforce, it will find wellness on many levels--among employees, in its local community, in its reputation and in its profit-and-loss statements.
While there is certainly more that employers could be doing (only 9% of the global workforce have access to wellness programmes at work) – the principles of a holistic and rounded approach are becoming far more standard.
Take the time to assess the health status of your workforce along with employees' individual wellness goals.
Cheerboxes help signal that employers care about their workforce's mental health and also fill a gap in the "corporate wellness" space.
That means building a supportive, team-minded culture in your workplace can pay dividends in the wellness of your workforce.
Advocacy organizations across education, wellness, equity and workforce development would benefit from this kind of win-win collaboration with organizations and agencies such as the Department of Defense, MCEC and the Military Families for High Standards project of the Collaborative for Student Success.
Personalized financial counseling is growing faster than online solutions, according to "Optimizing Financial Wellness for a Diverse Workforce," the latest study from Financial Finesse, a provider of financial-wellness programs.
As a result, as firms look to cut costs and get more out of a smaller workforce, more bosses are turning to staff "wellness" schemes.
