Employee Wellbeing

Wellness programmes and events are extended to cover employees’ families.
Work with local partners to support wellbeing in communities.
Wellbeing seen as a core responsibility for good corporate citizenship.
Wellbeing is critical to performance and drives employee engagement, organisational culture and productivity.
Critical illness and terminal illness is managed with sensitivity and compassion.
Wellbeing is central to the organisational brand and is therefore central to its recruitment attraction strategy.

Development of a holistic view of wellbeing in the workplace e.g. covering all aspects of wellbeing, including financial, healthy eating, physical wellbeing.
Workplace wellbeing is understood to form part of key people processes e.g. recruitment, learning and development, performance management, employee recognition.
Achievement of accreditations and externally assessed standards.
Wellbeing programs that are not just aimed at protecting employee’s health but actively support performance and social/emotional wellbeing.
Organisation actively encourages employee’s to take part in the development of wellbeing initiatives e.g. designing work to improve work/life balance.
Integration of technology and data to promote, manage and develop wellbeing program.
Forms part of corporate strategy with dedicated resources to support its delivery.
Post trauma illness is understood and actions are in place to support diffusing and long term support.
Reasonable adjustment for disability and wellbeing is well understood by all and applied with compassion.
Understanding of broader life impacts such as being a carer.

Identifying the business case for wellbeing – clear business rationale with intended actions and outcomes.
Introduction of tools focussed on developing personal resilience and improving health e.g. nutrition, mindfulness and fitness.
Awareness raising and empowerment programmes and events.
Challenging mental illness stigma and normalising mental health.
Access to peer support groups.
Organisation actively seeks to improve terms and conditions to improve employees wellbeing.
Exploration of how systems impact on wellbeing e.g. tackling inappropriate emails and email management, reviewing language used in documentation to make it easy to read and
accessible for everyone.