Employee Wellness Program Ideas At Work
There are many different ways to promote wellness for employees at work. It can be as simple as offering a mental health leave, free gym memberships, and healthy food options for employees. We always want to promote a holistic, well-designed program especially for our for our Gen Z employees. The younger generation look for employee well-being programs when they choose an employer. There are, however, a few easy ideas to jumpstart your employee wellness program at work, as you design your overall program. Here are 10 of them:
Employee Wellness Activities at Work
- Offer free fitness classes for employees like yoga, zumba, cardio kickboxing, dance fitness and more
- Offer standing desks for employees, stand up meetings, and brainstorming walkathons
- Offer employee well-being workshops and empower them to make better choices for their physical, nutritional, mental, and socio-emotional health
- Launch a 30-day employee wellness challenge to kickstart their fitness and health journey covering different aspects of wellness
- Have a fitness teambuilding day to get everybody moving and to promote a culture of wellness for your employees
- Offer roadmap sessions where they can have 1-on-1 consults with fitness and nutrition specialists so they can have a baseline of their current fitness levels. This way, they can be led into a program they can start and sustain
- Have an empathy training for leaders so they can create a psychologically safe space for employees
- Hold small group life coaching sessions with a life coach professional to give a space for regular mental health check-ins in the workplace
- Create an in-office gym or workout space
- Create sports or hobby interest groups
These are just some ideas but nothing beats a holistic plan that considers employees’ actual needs, preferences, and likelihood to engage. What we want are not one-off activities, but to create programs that build on a culture of employee wellbeing. Contact us so we can design your employee wellness program together.
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