The relationship and the mutual understanding between an Employee and the employer are very important in the Workplace. However, what’s more important for employees in the workplace to be able to work efficiently, is their mental as well as physical well-being. Sometimes the excessive workload leads to employee burnout. In this case, with the help of appropriate coping strategies and maintaining true well-being, they’ll be able to stay consistent, dedicated and honest toward their work and future goals by keeping their mental health intact.
As an employer, they should give as many chances as possible to the employees to solve problems in the workplace through correct identification
When employers provide certain chances to employees to identify the problems in the workplace and expect them to attempt to solve it, allowing mistakes to happen in between, the employees feel the power of authority and confidence in their abilities. Employees when given the power to educate and create a well, well-established inclusive culture, foster their Well-being. In the workplace, their heads value them and appreciate their efforts.
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Many researches have shown that employees show or experience a decreased rate of burnout and increased job satisfaction when provided with the opportunities to work in a structured process of identifying and solving various problems in the workplace. At the same time, they complain less about their job, Ultimately being the nonquitters. This makes the organization accommodated with dedicated and valuable employees enduring all kinds of challenges.
Sense of social belongings among the colleagues at workplace plays a crucial role in enhanced wellbeing
Fostering a sense of social belonging among colleagues is an important step to ensure efficient working at the workplace. It helps increase the well-being of the employees and offers lower psychological stress to colleagues due to work environment. An important strategy to foster social belonging among colleagues is by offering valuable opportunities to develop open and healthy connections within the office. The employees could work in teams or groups and gather everyone’s perspectives to solve problems. It develops connections among colleagues through the work assigned.
It’s very important to feel accepted and valued by surrounding positive people since it’s the people who make the Workplace a better place to work in. The managers could contribute greatly in helping the employees develop good connections. They can assign specific tasks to employees and ask them to work in groups by discussing and including everyone’s point of view and forming presentations to conclude it all.
The simple yet effective way is to value others by appreciating them for their work
When colleagues and employers don’t appreciate their work enough, employees feel demotivated and perceive themselves as less seen or heard. It leads them to doubt their abilities and reduces the chances of them coming up with great brainstorming ideas. They fear away from the responsibilities and try to escape from the workload. Working hard without sufficient appreciation or credit may also lead to experiencing burnout. The appreciation could be shown by recognizing, the employee’s work and the efforts they put into it.
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Adopting an ‘employees of the month’ strategy at the end of every month or launching a company-wide recognition program could really help boost their confidence in themselves and their work and force all of them to show their brighter side by being competitive and hard working. It offers them an opportunity to receive frequent recognition in both social and personal contexts. Tools like O.C. Tanner’s culture cloud give instant recognition to employees who perform well and complete their tasks in a given time period.
Showing support at the workplace and providing an ‘I do care’ attitude work wonders
Work-life balance is what everyone at some point feels troubled with and since no one is born with such a quality skill of balancing both lives efficiently, people need time, understanding, and support to outgrow themselves. It could be easily done when the managers are understanding and highly supportive towards their employees and allow them to be flexible to try out new things. Nursing home studies have gathered data indicating that employees who have considerate managers, particularly towards their families, experience reduced susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases, leading to enhanced well-being. Employees show deeper interest in their assigned work and there are fewer chances of them leaving a job with such a support system. As a result, both employees and employers benefit at the workplace and maintain balance by fostering supportive bonds.
Promoting virtual health weeks and remote work conditions
Everyone has different needs and ways of performing their tasks, some do it with great ease while others somewhat struggle initially, which leads them to ask for help or they may take slightly more time than usual to come up with better possible ways. By acknowledging the diverse needs, virtual health weeks offer Educational opportunities. It helps employees improve their sleep quality, manage stress, and adopt practices like yoga, meditation to enhance employees’ well-being.
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Also, allowing employees to work remotely or even in hybrid settings, where work mode is sometimes online and offline, helped them to ensure work-life balance, thus reducing their stress levels and maintaining mental health as it gives them sufficient time to practice self-care and focus on mental health. Flexible working arrangements attract and motivate job seekers to work at specific organizations.
Getting familiar with technology and using surveys to get required feedback
Surveys can be a great source to gather valuable insights and feedback, be it positive or negative. Some surveys like Employee sentiment surveys, pulse surveys, and NPS surveys help understand employees’ perspectives and opinions of the company’s culture and workings. This helps the leaders identify problems and make room for improvements which helps the employees to a great extent. By utilizing technology such as apps, AI-driven solutions, and chatbots, along with tools like wearable devices, employers can effectively measure the wellness of employees. This further enables them to offer well-being programs tailored to individual needs, aiding in the maintenance of mental health during work and yielding better outcomes.
Well-being could be taken care of in the workplace by using communication to reduce stigma and increase access to mental health resources
Both employers and employees must prioritize mental health, as it directly influences work performance and efficiency. By giving importance to mental health, employers develop an open and comfortable work environment among various employees. Mentioning mental health and well-being in monthly newsletters is a great initiative to reduce stigma and stereotypes related to it. Also, providing mental health-related workshops, phone calls, or in-person mental health professionals facilities and adding mental health coverage as part of health care plans are some strategies to show support and give importance to effective well-being.
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Mental as well as physical well-being is an essential aspect that directly impacts one’s performance in the workplace or anywhere else. When there are some issues and uneasiness, it hinders the employee’s work efficiency and may provide poor results. So, to be able to work and generate fruitful results, employers should engage in healthy communications and offer their support when needed for the employees.
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https://www.octanner.com/articles/5-strategies-to-improve-employee-wellbeing-at-work#:~:text=Offering%20opportunities%20for%20employees%20to,indicator%20of%20poor%20mental%20health.
https://www.hono.ai/blog/metrics-for-wellness-employee-well-being#:~:text=Employees%20can%20explore%20practices%20like,stress%20levels%20for%20many%20employees.
https://www.understood.org/en/articles/workplace-mental-health-5-ways-to-support-employee-wellness
