‘Workplace Wellbeing 101’ is that you must engage with your employees to find out what they need. Any wellbeing initiative needs to be specific to your people for it to be used, and a company culture of openness and willingness to listen is needed for any engagement to be successful.
Workplace wellness and wellbeing isn’t a new trend. The wellbeing of employees is a topic that has been on the rise for years but has seen unprecedented acceleration due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, for most companies, their workplace wellness approach has positively changed since the events of last year. Since the pandemic outbreak, people are actively looking for ways to improve their health, and the population has become more knowledgeable on what needs to be increased and enhanced at work for their health.
Research has found that 61 percent of people want flexibility in their work arrangements, with a combination of working from home and working from the office – meaning the workplace’s future will be a hybrid model. This change is supported from the top, with CEOs of some of the most successful companies shifting to a hybrid way of working. Even the government is on board, expecting many workers to fall under a hybrid work model.
At DB Interiors they agree that the office will look different. Rather than having a majority of people in the office working from a desk, we will see more breakout spaces, team spaces and collaboration hubs; workspaces where people can safely gather to exchange knowledge and ideas. While this hybrid model of work was already on the horizon, the pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated the timeline.
Although workplace wellbeing programmes aren’t new, the COVID-19 era has ushered in a new awareness of how employees’ health and wellbeing has a material effect on a company’s bottom line. It hasn’t been appreciated until now, but a healthy and well workforce creates a healthy and well organisation.
DB Interiors’ vision is to maximise your return on investment by careful spatial design, and realising a vibrant and healthy office fit-out that will boost your staff’s productivity and lift up the culture in your work environment, so for more information on modern office design and office interiors please go to http://dbinteriors.co.nz .
