Discover how to overcome the challenges for valuable workplace wellness

Discover how to overcome the challenges
for valuable workplace wellness

The work to gain the money only isn’t the goal of the business now, but besides getting money, you need to feel comfortable style when you go to work, feel pleasure not feel heavy pressure.
This is the effect of “a lifestyle of wellness”.
This approach isn’t a recent one it has been used more than 70 years ago, but the system of lifestyle changed from before for the best.

“One of our goals in Catering Plus is to provide high-quality and effective service to our clients in a professional way that saves their money.
So we apply the approach of the workplace wellness, that ensure safety and healthy workplace too.”
Hani Gazzaz, CEO and Founder of Catering Plus.

Definition of workplace wellness:

The ILO defined workplace wellness and the main aspects of working life as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not absence of disease or infirmity only”. The internal policy in any workplace of organization or company aims to promote healthy behavior among employees and at the same time improve health outcomes. There is a common concept called “corporate wellbeing”. It is any program that encourages a healthier lifestyle, overcomes the challenges that impact your business growth.

Corporate wellbeing contains some different activities such as on-site health education/fairs, health coaching, stress management, free medical screenings, and weight loss program…etc. recently, there is a new approach called ” culture of health” being applied in the workplace.

In this article we select the main aspects of workplace wellness as follows:

1- Self-care challenge:

Because the type of work and the quantity increased than before, so we spend more time in the workplace.
During work, we usually face problems and want to find the solution to it, here self-care could lead to sustainable health and well-being for the employees.
Some factors could produce a perfect impact such as:

Determine a special time for a break:
Let the employee take enough time to enjoy the break and practice different life activities such as eating, praying, walking outside for a while then back, or doing meditation.
Apply a flexible working hours system:
Give your employee the space to work throughout the day, at the same time do his special errands, visit his sick parents and help them, or do other personal issues.

2- Health habit challenges:

There are some steps you could do to encourage the employees to have healthy habits such as:

Practice sport daily, by walking 15 minutes a day.
Eat Healthy Foods, in Catering Plus we prepare healthy food too for our customers.
It is necessary to eat a breakfast meal.
Sleep well and have enough time to get a better mode, at least 6-8 hours of sleep every night.
Encourage employees to quit smoking by offering them resources to help them to start.

3- Physical challenges:

Keeping your team in a healthy lifestyle will support your business.
provide the required vaccine for the virus like flu, or give them the permission to attend any medical appointments or making radiology at any lab.
Buy sufficient water bottle and declare the importance of drinking water daily for our body.
Providing a physical fitness program will help to get higher-energy employees, enhance their overall health, decrease absenteeism, and increase social wellness.

4- Financial challenges:

It means providing the employees with the required skills and knowledge that improve the financial challenges.
That be achieved by increasing awareness of their financial state and starting to take healthy steps to get financial well-being.
The result of the financial challenge will be amazing make the employees healthier and happier than before.

5- Social Well-Being:

It is important for any person to feel that he is a part of a community, and at the same time play a pioneer role in serving others by volunteering or funding local charities. The employer could provide one paid day off, to encourage employees to enjoy helping the local community.

6- Career Well-Being:

The place of work must be comfortable and safe for employees to encourage them to innovate and work effectively.
Provide employees with training that improves their skills and increases the experience for their personal development.
Create a program that ensures management development.
In Catering Plus, we provide our employees with the required training to enhance their skills.

Conclusion:

Wellness program promotes the engagement of employees in the workplace and boosts healthy behaviors, and human communication.
The investment of time and money into a workplace wellness approach get amazing outcomes for the teamwork and makes them happier and healthier than before and increases productivity to a higher level.
Because your employees will feel appreciated and empowered.
Applying these aspects in your company will create a new culture that ensures “workplace wellness”.