What Are Some Risks And Opportunities With Wellness In The Workplace?

Diagnosing The Workplace: Not Just An HR Podcast

Sep 13 2023 • 46 mins

In this episode, we examine the different aspects of wellness in the workplace and explore the potential challenges and areas of growth that can come with improving employees' physical, mental, and emotional health.

Our prescription for this episode: understand that wellness strategies cannot be successful in a silo. We need to look at physical, mental, AND emotional health all together. Employee wellness is how you maintain employees in the long term.

Statistics referenced:

Employees take an average of 4 sick days a year, but admit to being unproductive an average of 57.5 days a year.
-GCC Insights. Clocking on and Checking out: Why Your Employees May Not Be Working at Optimal Levels and What You Can Do About It. (2016)

The cost of burnout-related absences and lost productivity can be close to 25% of an employee's annual salary.
-Morneau Shepell. Annual Mental Health Index. (2022)

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