Employee wellbeing is about how an individual’s job affects their general health and happiness in their day-to-day life. Nowadays, there is a far greater appreciation of how important employee wellbeing is for every single company in Ireland. Focusing on employee wellbeing can help create a more positive, empowering and healthy working environment. It can prevent stress and help employees to thrive at work.
In this post, the Precision Health team has taken a look at how employee wellbeing can affect the overall performance of a business, and why it is so important for any organisation to develop a clear, long-term wellbeing strategy. Read on to learn more, and if you’d like to discuss wellbeing in the workplace - please contact us today via the details below.
Improve Employee Morale and Teamwork
Focusing on employee wellbeing will have a hugely positive impact on your team’s morale and togetherness. Quite simply, it will mean that your workers come into work much happier and more motivated to work. Staff will feel empowered and valued for all of their hard work and efforts. Interpersonal relationships will improve, and this will have a positive knock-on effect on teamwork across projects and the entire organisation.
Increase Staff Retention
A comprehensive employee wellbeing strategy will go a long way in terms of improving staff retention. It will reduce staff turnover, and make your employees more likely to remain working at your company. Being able to keep your staff will be a major boost; your business costs are far smaller when you keep your staff. You won’t have to worry about all the costs of new recruitment, as well as the general disruption that is caused by a constantly changing workforce.
Enable you to Attract Top Talent
In today’s economy, job seekers are putting more value on additional work benefits and perks such as employee wellbeing schemes and programmes. If your business can demonstrate that it sincerely cares about the mental health and physical wellbeing of its staff - then this will send a clear message to job hunters. It will make your business a far more attractive place to work at, and this will mean that you’ll be attracting prime talent in the job market.
Benefit your Overall Productivity
Finally, it has been shown time and time again that higher levels of employee wellbeing correlate strongly with higher productivity. Simply put, a more fulfilled worker will be more energised and motivated to work for your business. This will make them more productive, which if replicated across your entire company, will mean that your company becomes more efficient and profitable.
Need Assistance with Employee Wellbeing in Ireland?
Here at Precision Health, we provide first-class wellness advisory services to clients in a wide range of sectors across Ireland. Our team advises clients on all medical elements of their corporate health and wellbeing programmes. We offer unrivalled medical knowledge, intelligent data insights and years of expertise so we are best placed to support you to create and manage a tailored wellness strategy.
Our specialists can develop a smart strategy that promotes wellbeing and creates a healthy workplace for all stakeholders in the long term. You can be assured that your workforce will be in the safest hands possible, as we pride ourselves on our professional, dependable and trusted service.
To get in touch about our wellbeing programmes and workshops, please drop us a message via the online form on our website. We’re always on hand to discuss your wellbeing needs, and guide you through your next wellness project. You can also email us at support@precisionhealth.ie and we’ll respond to you shortly.