Stress Awareness Week: Alleviating Stress with Employee Benefits

Surprising insights into how you can start alleviating stress with employee benefits, for both employer and employee. Millions of people throughout the UK experience significant stress daily. This can significantly impact health and well-being and ultimately shorten lives. Your employees are the lifeblood of your business. A stressed employee, whether that stress is caused by home or work, is less productive. They will make more mistakes and engage less than a happy employee. So, how can you help?

Simple steps for alleviating stress with employee benefits:

Introduce Flexible Working

None of us are 100% focused all the time. So, where possible, let employees take time off when not in the mood and see productivity sore! Of course, it’s not always possible. At Fleet Evolution, for example, we have core ‘busy call’ hours that people must work between 10 AM and 2 PM; outside of that, it’s their choice when they work! You could also introduce remote working. Employees may value that extra time at home with pets, or where they can get background tasks done whilst they work, such as laundry.

Relieve Financial Stress

This needn’t cost you a bean! You can make employees’ salaries go further with salary sacrifice items, such as cars or consolidated loans, leveraging the employer’s buying power to reduce credit payments vastly. Cars can be 45% cheaper than retail with salary sacrifice and cost less than an unreliable older car, all with no leaver risk.

Trust

The simplest step, but often the most complicated to achieve. So many companies spend a fortune recruiting the best people only to distrust them one day. As the saying goes, ‘Treat people like children and they will act like them’, so remember why you recruited them in the first place and trust them.

Team Building and Socials

Employees shouldn’t feel fear or dread to go into the office. Whether that’s caused by the people, the atmosphere, or even just workload stress. Encouraging your team to get together and socialise might be just what they need to feel more at ease in the office and ready to take on the days.

Fleet Evolution has a monthly meeting and social, where one department will decide the theme and a game, then are given a budget to make it happen! Is this something your employees could benefit from?

Plants

Yes, plants! Even office plants have a marked improvement in office ‘calm’ and productivity. However, like everything, you need to keep it ‘real’; plastic plants have no measurable benefit and harbour dust and germs!

Concierge Services

Whether calling dry cleaners to the office or offering salary sacrifice cars, where we manage everything for the employee, you can free up employees’ work and personal time. This would make them more productive in and out of work, leading to greater fulfilment.

Health

Encourage healthy activities! They could be ambitious communal exercise routines or just offering health benefits, such as gym memberships, a cycle scheme, or a health plan.

Lastly, say hi once in a while! Not to see how a project is doing, but to see how your PEOPLE are doing. After all, they are your greatest asset!

Now you know how easy it is to alleviate stress using employee benefits, why not implement some? Download the guide below to see how salary sacrifice can become your employees’ new favourite benefit! And it’s free to implement…

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