Employee Wellness In The Workplace - This Isn't What You Expect

Telling your employees to get well through nutrition, sleep and exercise and demanding they work extra every day is like telling them to eat cake and only giving them celery. You aren't serious.
The work environment has a huge impact on wellbeing - particularly asking too much of people.
Linda Duxbury is Canada's leading expert on employee wellbeing. She's done national studies involving tens of thousands of people. She has a lot to say on the subject and it does not include telling employees to get more sleep. As the video below says, she refuses employers who want her to talk to employees. She wants to talk to the EMPLOYER.
And she cleared up some things for me:
❌ Unequivocally, time at work or in front of a computer is a terrible measure of productivity.
⤵ Productivity rises, plateaus and falls. The point at which it starts to fall depends on the person and the demands on their time.
🧐 To truly improve wellbeing, employers need to consider the demand they put on their employees.
📣 We need to stop paying so much attention remote workers who want to stay remote or hybrid. We need to pay attention to all the the people who have to show up in person. Their morale post pandemic is terrible.
This should be required content. The amount of insight... 😯
0:00 Intro
0:58 What she means by 'wellbeing'
2:01 The impact of personal factors
3:06 What can an employer influence?
6:18 Impact on the bottom line
9:01 Productivity and the bottom-line
12:11 Myths about employee wellbeing
14:18 Who has responsibility
17:22 Employee wellbeing post-pandemic
22:32 Advice to employers re flexible work
As she said during the interview, Linda doesn't really do social media but you can find her by googling!
Find me (Andrea) at www.thehrhub.ca. I'm an HR consultant as well as UA-camr and provide a wide range of consulting support.

[@mapitsithamaga-xn3oi]

I am having 2 interviews lined up in this area and i found this video helpful not only in my preparation but also to my personal life on focusing on my welbeing

[@loriallison1786]

Love your new look! Thanks for great HR content.

[@hrhubtalk]

Thank Lori! I dressed up for this one. LOL Maybe I should more often? Also took a new bank of thumbnail photos.

[@fizzamemon1765]

Love the videos, highly resonating especially as an HR professional. Can you call over an industry professional explaining if CHRP is essential when you have extensive work experience under your belt and perform well with HR? How far does licensing signify your credibility and worth in the industry?

[@hrhubtalk]

Hi Fizzamemon. I might attempt, sometime, to confront this head on. I did do an episode on it 3 years ago with the head of CPHR AB. He was fairly balanced, but he doesn't represent industry. He doesn't represent hiring managers in HR.
It's a question I am asked fairly frequently. Certainly you don't require it to get a job. Once you're in an organization, it's unlikely to be more than a minor factor in promotions. But for some careers, it's more valuable. It can make you stand out when you're applying for jobs. It also forces you to do continuing education when you might not without the extra motivation. But it isn'tg cheap and the effort to get it is considerable... hours and hours. There are lots of tradeoffs! I'll tell you this: I wish I had not let mine lapse because re-qualifying has been sooo much work. :)

[@fizzamemon1765]

A very comprehensive response. This has left me with more clarity in terms of CHRP for personal consideration. Thanks a bunch. 🙂

[@hrhubtalk]

@@fizzamemon1765 Thanks for the question. I always want to know what questions I could answer.

[@andrewt7607]

💯 *promo sm*