Studies demonstrate the beneficial effect of developing wellbeing skills on emotional and psychological well-being, building resilience to overcome more serious mental health problems that might arise and helping individuals cope more easily with them.
Fostering workplace wellbeing means providing your employees with holistic support during both good and bad times, both at work and home.
Health & Wellbeing
Health and well-being are cornerstones of a flourishing society. By investing in the wellbeing of all individuals and communities, one can create an effective strategy to prevent disease, increase health literacy literacy and build societal resilience.
Health is a dynamic combination of physical, emotional and social factors. It transcends simple illness or injury and encompasses elements like physical health (including diet and exercise); employment; good personal relationships; having goals or purposes worth striving towards; being part of an open society with democratic ideals that ensure fair treatment for all; living safely.
Spiritual wellbeing has increasingly come under scrutiny, which manifests in various forms such as healthy relationships with oneself and others, self-compassion, and the ability to cope with life’s challenges. In contrast to medical models of health which primarily focus on treating diseases through diagnosis or treatments, wellbeing includes prevention and promotion.
Workplace Wellbeing
Workplace wellbeing encompasses every aspect of an individual’s life and seeks to promote contentment and balance in every area, such as mental health issues at work. Resiliency training, self-care practices, and developing personal relationships all play a part.
An effective culture of workplace wellness demonstrates an organization’s concern for their employees’ physical and emotional well-being, building trust between staff members and its goals, while helping to increase productivity and employee engagement.
Pandemic may have caused many companies to adopt greater flexibility measures, yet this must be handled carefully to prevent presenteeism and burnout. Ensuring employees can fully disconnect at home, having sufficient staff available for regular work duties and quotas and offering training in communication skills are among the ways in which increased flexibility can reduce stress levels and help avoid burnout.
Personal Wellbeing
Personal wellbeing refers to one’s state of mind and relationship with their surroundings, taking into account multiple elements such as their emotional, social and financial health.
An individual with poor mental health could benefit from receiving appropriate support in the form of talking therapies and lifestyle adjustments to boost their wellbeing and feel more capable in handling stress management and other personal matters.
At the same time, financial wellness is central to a person’s ability to care for themselves and their family. Ensuring they have enough money for food, housing and medical bills allows them to prioritize physical, emotional and environmental well-being more effectively. Therefore, this type of question was included in the ESS as it’s relevant to daily lives while simultaneously tracking overall societal thriving and sustainability as well as providing a means of harmonization across data collection modes (face-to-face interviews, telephone calls or online data collection).
Community Wellbeing
Wherever people reside, relationships and support from their community can play an essential part in their wellbeing; this may be especially true for disadvantaged or marginalised populations.
An effective community requires flourishing individuals, strong relationships, skilled leadership, healthy practices and an unifying mission. These characteristics appear across nations, cities, neighbourhoods, workplaces and families; though their focus may differ accordingly.
Community wellbeing initiatives seek to improve residents’ quality of life by addressing environmental, social, economic, cultural and political factors that define a community. While individual-level objective measures such as education, healthcare access, employment status and crime rates may be tracked in surveys for their impact on community well-being, these often overlook subjective measures like sense of belonging relationships shared values which may provide better indicators of subjective wellbeing for communities overall.
