Last month was The National Work Life Week, a great initiative launched by the Working Families charity to promote the work/ life balance of both employees and employers. The week-long awareness week has inspired us to look at how organisations can create the right wellness programme to support their teams and encourage a positive working culture.
Here at Origin Workspace, we are working on numerous initiatives to help our members think about their wellbeing. From our monthly Workout + Network events to the Connect Card offering local discounts and freebies.
Encouraging staff to think about their work/life balance doesn’t have to be costly, through small activities team members can have a variety of options to improve wellbeing in their working day.
Here are some ways you can promote a healthier working environment for your team.
There are always those colleagues who are running late and are constantly chasing the day by skipping breakfast. You will find by providing breakfast basics (fruit, milk, peanut butter) in the office employees will take the time to fuel up for the day. There is nothing wrong with a bowl of cereal joining internal team meetings to kick start the day.
For more tips on nutrition during the working day, Rosie Letts gives her top tips at this Tech Spark Entrepreneurial Wellness Series event.
If your business operates in the creative industry, your staff might often find they feel under pressure to constantly come up with new ideas that are innovative and creative. This strain can lead to various mental health issues, from anxiety to unhealthy stress levels. By allowing enough time for great ideas to develop, also offer teams out of office environments to help them find inspiration. Here at Origin Workspace our teams sometimes have walking meetings where they brainstorm ideas while going for a long walk around Brandon Hill.
In Bristol we are spoilt for choice when it comes to charity/ community events. Pick an event that your team would want to be part of and get the company involved. Here at Origin Workspace, we host a Wednesday running club around the harbourside, so it made sense for our team to enter the Simply Health Bristol 10k run.
We believe to have the perfect working environment and office needs to have five zones to allow team members to move around through the day and have different environments to boost productivity. The five perfect environments we think every office should have are:
By giving staff the option to leave early and start early, it can make all the difference between working out in a sweaty gym and running late, to working out at your own pace in an off-peak gym.
There are numerous activities employers could be implementing to make employee working lives healthier, the most important thing is to communicate with employees to find out what they are looking for to make them more conscience about their work/life balance.
Find out more about our wellbeing initiatives by coming along to one of our monthly Workout + Network events.
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