The future of work is employee-centric and the rise of the smart buildings typify that. Employees will no longer be made to fit into predesigned worksites, but, contrarily, workspaces will be crafted to adjust to our needs and optimize our performance.
Many health symptoms experienced by workers are caused by indoor air pollution. That is why it is essential to keep the air inside your commercial building clean and safe.
Before companies become overly optimistic about the benefits of medicinal cannabis, they should do the necessary due diligence to distinguish one cannabis provider from the other.
In the end, either a building is safe for workers to use and the public to access, or it is too hazardous to enter without suffering serious or permanent injury.
Employers should keep themselves - and their employees - updated with the CDC’s recommendations and seek legal advice to ensure they make informed workplace decisions to curb the spread of the deadly virus.
Here are five suggestions to keep in mind when working towards a workplace its own with an inner sense of peace.
Wellness of this kind is more than cosmetic, despite the sparkle of a person’s smile.
In today’s age of hiring, we know that having a comprehensive recruiting and onboarding experience for new hires can significantly impact their future with your company. That’s particularly important in a competitive market, where retention rates are dropping. According to Glassdoor, 66 percent of Millennials plan to leave their employers next year.
The Total Rewards model has been a highly effective way for employers to articulate how they stand out in a competitive market.
The sun not only lights up our world, but it also lights up our bodies with several health benefits. However, there’s a dark side to the rays of sunlight that fall on our bodies, and it is responsible for thousands of deaths yearly.
If American workers have a moral right to medicine; if they have a right to choose their medicine; if their choice is medicinally sound; if the medicinal use of cannabis can help them, then companies have a duty to support them
By focusing on the important connections between body, mind, and environment, and steering away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach, companies can better structure their wellness offerings to ensure that employees are happy, healthy, engaged and inspired at work
It is especially important to understand how environmental factors are contributing to your overall health. These factors include your environment, occupation, and the location of your workplace.
Given music's powerful influence over people's cognition and productivity, it may be essential for business owners and employers to rethink office design and incorporate appropriate soundscapes in the right workspaces.
This month - in its eleventh edition - the National Employee Wellness Month, once again, provides an opportunity for employers and organizations to enhance existing wellness programs and encourage their employees to adopt proactive strategies for improved physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing in the workplace.
We also need to stop treating sleep as a luxury, because we cannot afford to ruin our health and shorten our lives by going for weeks or months without sleep. A deficit of that kind is inescapable, deepening each minute of each waking hour
“Begin with safeeyes, finish with safe eyes” is a common slogan about eye safety. This cannotbe overemphasized because eyesight is one of our most important senses, theloss of which may cause significant changes in our daily lives. It remainsimperative, therefore, to keep the eyes safe in the place we spend the much ofour time – the workplace.
Chronic disease remains a leading cause of disability, death, and workplace productivity loss globally. Employers, therefore, are saddled with the responsibility of curbing this trend, by creating interventions that integrate a healthy work environment with health promotion programs aimed at changing individual health behaviors.
