Healthier Workforce: Employee Wellbeing and World Mental Health Day

World Mental Health Day is dedicated to talking openly and freely about mental health and showing that it matters. This year’s theme highlights ‘mental health is a universal right’. As employee benefits specialists, we wanted to hone in and focus on employees’ mental health and well-being. Are employers doing enough for their staff to ensure they’re happy and healthy in and out of the office? Let’s take a look at some employee wellness programmes for a healthier workforce.

Embrace Flexible Working

Flexible working became a necessity amid COVID-19. Now we’re on the other side of the pandemic, many businesses have adopted hybrid working to benefit employees. Now we know that working from home can make employees more comfortable and more productive, why not adopt it? 

The financial benefits can be huge too, with no time and money lost for their commute, their lunch expenses reduced, and lower office costs for you! Reducing employees’ outgoing costs where possible can be a massive stress-reducer, which is especially important during the ongoing cost of living crisis.

However, you must be careful. Flexible or home working doesn’t suit everyone and can create more stress for your team. A couple of days in the office helps with planning, teamwork, and career development. It also ensures you can monitor your teams well-being.

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Offer Cash Plans

Private healthcare policies are expensive and can be unappreciated by colleagues; the tax they pay on the benefit is large considering they are unlikely to claim on. On the other hand, cash plans cost you peanuts and have a very low tax burden for your team. They allow the reclaim of costs for everything from eye care to physio and can drive down your sickness rates and absence bills!

Be Mindful of Mindfulness

Mindfulness improves concentration, focus, and productivity and promotes team ethics when combined with your working day. Whether full-on meditation or just a quiet garden area for reflection. It’s simple to incorporate mindfulness into your team’s day.

Soemtimes, wellness is seen as a new-age thing, akin to a diet of lentils. The reality is that a good wellness strategy is good business practice!

Introduce a Green Car Scheme

Thought we’d forgotten something? Don’t be silly. It wouldn’t be a Fleet Evo blog without a mention of salary sacrifice car schemes. It’s the best benefit you can offer to your employees. Did we mention it’s free to implement

Offer employees a chance to get into cleaner, greener motoring for a fraction of what it costs to run their current diesel/petrol car. Salary sacrifice for EVs can save employees up to 45% compared to retail, make savings on their tax and NI, and not to mention the incredible savings on fuel spend. Don’t believe us? Check out our video on Andy’s road trip to France in his Audi e-Tron, the results will shock you! We even have a workplace charge point scheme for businesses, too; check it out here.

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