Impactful Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
High employee engagement and high productivity are two key pillars of business success. However, achieving both simultaneously – and maintaining them at a high level – is notoriously difficult.
Stress and anxiety pose significant challenges to individual well-being and have a profound impact on organisational productivity and success. With rising mental health awareness, employers must create supportive workplaces that mitigate the adverse effects of stress and anxiety.
Recent data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) highlights the pervasive nature of stress-related issues in the UK workforce. The HSE's report on work-related stress, anxiety, or depression in Great Britain for 2022/23 indicates that these conditions accounted for a staggering 49% of all work-related ill health cases.
“Low engagement costs the global economy £6.9 billion, accounting for 9% of global GDP”
Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2023 Report
Workplace stress is now recognised as a ‘hazard’ that must be acknowledged, managed, and controlled, just as we would manage risks like exposure to asbestos or the risk of electrocution.
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, employers are legally required to protect employees, and others, from harm, including workplace stress.
Why Should Companies Worry About Workplace Stress?
Stress, depression, or anxiety contributed to 54 percent of all working days lost due to work-related ill health, highlighting the significant toll on both individuals and the economy.
The financial impact of stress-related absenteeism and presenteeism is concerning. Research from the Centre for Mental Health reveals that poor mental health among employees costs UK employers up to £45 billion annually, including factors like absenteeism, presenteeism, and staff turnover which are all exacerbated by stress and anxiety in the workplace.
Fostering stress-free workplaces is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic investment.
Economic Toll of Stress
Work-related stress led to 54% of lost work days.
Costs up to £45 billion annually for UK employers (Centre for Mental Health).
ROI on Well-being
Investing in well-being has an average ROI of 5:1 (Deloitte).
Positive Employee Experience is essential for successful Customer Experience.
Investment in Employee Welfare
Prioritizing employee well-being boosts resilience, satisfaction, and improves operations.
This investment leads to higher profitability and ROI.
Final Note
Addressing employee stress and disengagement is critical to protecting the company's bottom line.
Current Options for Employee Wellbeing
Employee Well-being initiatives usually fall into one of two categories: Employee Assistance Programmes or short-term taster sessions. While both have merits, neither has a track record of creating long-term change, meaning that investments in these initiatives must be made repeatedly.
To achieve consistency in performance in any other area of business, employees need proper training, an understanding of the subject matter, and an awareness of their role in the process. Why should employee wellbeing be any different?
With the right knowledge, understanding of the benefits, guidance and support on implementing key steps, employee health can be transformed, affecting mental and physical health alike.
We think there is another option…….
£28.3 billion yearly cost due to stress-related absenteeism
"The average ROI on wellbeing is 5:1"
Deloitte
About Our 4 Doctors of Wellbeing Programme
Real health, sustainable energy and wellbeing may seem an impossible dream to many. But that is because they are putting all their efforts into too few areas - and usually the wrong ones. Hippocrates knew hundreds of years ago that balance was the key to human health and it's no different today. Our 4 Doctors of Wellbeing Programme is designed to give your workforce a sustainable uplift to their health and wellbeing - to help them create balance.
We work with you and your employees to develop a programme that provides opportunities to experience a wide variety of approaches that can improve a person’s health and wellbeing. We look to make each session engaging, a little educational and also give the participants a chance to continue outside of the session.
The first half of the programme is very much full of taster experiences and the second half is all about action, encouraging each person to commit to something and supporting them to make it happen, to make it a habit.
Who Is It For?
Our 4 Doctors of Workplace Stress Programme is for any company that wants to take a tailored, pro-active approach to the Health & Wellbeing of their staff.
It is for companies that don’t want a tick box exercise, that don’t want to provide something that will get minimal buy-in.
It is for companies that want to make a difference and make a lasting difference to the health and wellbeing of their workforce.
What’s Involved
Our 4 Doctors Wellbeing programme is a fixed term programme (usually 6 or 12 months) that is tailored to fit the needs of each company usually including:
Briefing and planning session with SLT
Monthly seminars to educate and experience
Monthly newsletters with extra insight and links to resources
Opportunity for 1:1 work
Each workshop delivered by a specialist in that area
Halfway point brainstorm
Personal Action Plan delivered for each employee
Wrap up debrief for managers and leaders
The programme is delivered by a team of specialists, therapists and coaches from a range of disciplines who each have decades worth of experience.
Key Elements
Dr Diet
Your Diet forms the cornerstone of every cell in your body. You literally ARE what you eat. Our health & vitality is constantly under attack from the majority of the foods that we eat on a day to day basis – sugar, refined flour, processed foods, alcohol, caffeine to name but a few.
Dr Movement
Movement is life, it is vital that you move your body each and every day but also that you do something that you enjoy. Remember that your body is between 60 &75% water and water that doesn’t flow stagnates & smells. Note that it is Dr Movement not Dr Exercise.
Dr Quiet
Rest, relaxation & rejuvenation are essential. That is not just resting the body, but the mind too. An overworked mind can totally destroy any progress that the body is trying to make.
Dr Happiness
The Boss! It doesn't matter what any of the others are trying to do if Dr Happiness isn’t at the party the body is going nowhere fast. Open your eyes to things that really matter to you.
Our Current Corporate Partners
Our programmes are customised to each company's needs and can be delivered online, in-person, or through a hybrid model. For example, the AdamsMoore programme was very strongly led by the Directors and included all employees for every session while Wright Hassall offered employees the option to opt in following an introductory taster session (over 95% of attendees opted in). The EES programme was run 100% online allowing their remote workers be fully engaged. All programmes provide tangible results create lasting change.
“A healthy staff group is more productive, engaged and happy. I particularly recommend the education side of the programme as that resonated with the team and produced best results”
Martin Crooke, Owner, AdamsMoore Accountants
“Our people are our greatest asset, and we recognize that a healthy, happy and committed workforce is vital to our business success.”
Alex Gourlay, MD, Boots UK
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