The Importance of Workplace Wellness
How does your company define success?
Profit? Rank? Customer satisfaction? Regardless of your chosen metrics, a company’s success is only as good as the employees it retains.
Over the last couple years, employees have been leaving their jobs in record numbers. An average of 3.98 million workers quit their jobs each month in 2021, and The Great Resignation does not appear to be slowing down.i This mass exodus includes the entire range of workers, from entry-level trainees to irreplaceable experts. Accordingly, companies are losing valuable knowledge and skills, decreasing productivity, and lowering employee morale. Furthermore, the cost to recruit and replace employees ranges from about 50% of the annual salary for an entry-level worker to 200% of the annual salary for a highly trained employee.ii
So far, some companies have seemed immune to this pandemic-induced power shift. Why?
They didn’t experience a power shift because their companies didn’t need one. They had already built a thriving, employee-centric workplace. Consequently, for everyone else, now is the time to seize the opportunity to change our workplace culture for good.
Now is the time to change our workplace culture for good.
Workplace Wellness
Some variation of the term “workplace wellness” has emerged throughout U.S. companies over the last several years. For most employees, that term has translated into a collection of incentive programs and self-help apps aimed at providing the resources and the motivation for employees to achieve wellness. In the meantime, as the pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health, these programs have started incorporating an added emphasis on “supporting mental health.” Despite their good intentions, most of the workplace wellness programs have missed the mark.
True Workplace Wellness is predicated on these concepts:
- The wellbeing of an organization and the wellbeing of its workers are inextricably linked.
- The key to both requires an understanding of this reciprocal relationship through a mental health lens.
Undoubtedly, if your company’s success is only as good as the employees it retains, then it is essential to retain quality employees who are working to their full potential. By effectively addressing the interrelated workplace wellness factors, companies can achieve both retention and productivity while simultaneously building a thriving company comprised of thriving employees.
Five Core Factors of Fieldstone Workplace Wellness
Fieldstone can help you create a work environment that attracts, retains, and enriches high-quality employees, resulting in optimal team synergy. With this intention, the Fieldstone Workplace Wellness Model is built upon the foundation of five core factors: Sense of Belonging, Sense of Purpose, Growth & Development, Work-Life Balance, and Mental Health Support.
Fieldstone Workplace Wellness Consultations.
Helping You Protect Your Most Valuable Assets:
Your Employees
Workplace Assessment
A customized, comprehensive strategy begins with a clear understanding of your company's needs. Together, we will choose the your key areas of focus, which may include: psychological safety, company culture, professional development, policies and procedures, and employee mental health and wellness needs.
Mental Health Awareness
Programming is designed to educate employees about common mental health issues, to decrease stigma around mental health, and to connect employees with the tools and resources they need. This can include trainings/workshops, a specific training program for managers, implementing an employee advocate program, and a promotion of available resources.
Trainings and Workshops
Customized training sessions are available for entire organizations, employees only, executives only, or individual departments. Both content and delivery method can be adapted to meet the needs and goals of your organization. Some areas of focus include: mental health awareness, psychological safety in the workplace, interpersonal/communication skills, stress/anxiety management, self-care, and workplace burnout.
Employee Support
Consultation and counseling is available to help address individual concerns, interpersonal conflicts, and organizational effectiveness. Additionally, ADA Accommodation facilitation and/or consultation can provide you with solutions that are beneficial and sustainable for both the employee and the company.
Available remotely, but we can also arrange for an on-site visit.