The landscape of work, entertainment, and life itself has changed dramatically throughout the past year and continues to evolve. Whether your team has switched to a hybrid or fully remote model, there will likely be a number of people who will still work from home. To ensure your remote employees feel properly supported, it’s important to promote a culture of wellness that translates into the virtual environment. Here are a few tips to help you get started!
Complete a Health Risk Assessment
No matter if your employees work from home or the office, it’s likely that they are struggling with some kind of burnout. Their negative feelings could be work-related, personally caused, or created by the COVID-19 public health crisis. That’s why the first step in creating a culture of wellness needs to assess what health concerns your employees are dealing with.
Health concerns can come in many different forms, though COVID-19 might be at the forefront right now. To pinpoint where your employees need the most assistance, you should send out a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) survey to learn more about your workforce’s mental and physical wellbeing.
Especially working remotely, it may be tough to determine how your employees feel since you don’t see them in person every day. Sending a survey helps show that you care about your team’s wellbeing and can help you take the proper steps to resolve any issues. If your employees do have any mental or physical health concerns, these problems are most likely affecting their work, so doing what you can to help your team will make you a more supportive employer and can help boost productivity.
Culture of Wellness Includes Financial Education
Over the recent years, more companies have realized the importance of helping their employees manage their personal finances. With many Americans facing large student loans, medical bills, or some other form of debt, offering additional education can improve your workers’ lives while increasing productivity and profitability for your business.
Courses on topics such as budgeting, retirement planning, home buying, and debt management have been beneficial to employees of all ages. For older employees, helping them learn about mortgage refinancing or using their home equity to pay off outstanding debts can have a positive impact on their financial health, and can help them make the most out of their paychecks.
Finances can be a significant cause of stress, which may translate into your team’s performance and focus, so encouraging financial literacy and a culture of wellness among your remote employees can only help your business.
Encourage Flexible Work Schedules
The recent rise in remote work has also created an increased demand for flexible work arrangements. Offering flextime, compressed workweeks, job sharing, and other perks can promote adaptability and a better work-life balance for your remote workers.
When employees can design their own weekly and daily schedules, they can be more productive while ensuring they have plenty of time for rest during the workday. This can also help your team effectively manage their time as this flexibility can reduce any stress about their schedules and other responsibilities such as caring for children.
Depending on your business, you may need to have some guidelines about working hours, but making an effort to promote more relaxed and flexible schedules can greatly improve employee satisfaction. This can be a valuable benefit for your company that can also increase employee retention.
Create a Wellness Committee for Remote Employees
While the majority of employees will appreciate a change in company culture, it may be difficult to motivate and educate them about the initiative. By creating a wellness committee, you can build a team of managers and employees that will take ownership of the process and represent the company’s values.
Developing and maintaining a distinct company culture can be especially difficult while remote, but having a dedicated team for this task can ensure your employees feel supported and heard. Treat this like any other initiative and have regular meetings to discuss the state of wellness at the company and create goals to work toward. This could include more engagement throughout your organization with virtual events or online team-building activities, or implementing new policies to better support your remote employees.
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