In fact, I’m sure some of you aren’t actually sure where work starts and ends some days. I know I struggle with this, at times.

Even though this digital connectedness has allowed companies to expand around the globe, produce products and services at a cheaper and faster rate than ever before and also provided employees with the flexibility to work remotely, it does come with some warning signs.

If employees are working split shifts, late nights, weekends and some on call 24/7, we need to better understand our responsibilities as the employer. As we continue to ask more and more of our employees, it’s become our responsibility, as employers, to take a more holistic approach to how we manage our employees.

What do we mean by holistic approach?

At no point are we suggesting you lower your KPIs or reduce your expectations if you and the employee believe them to be responsible. What we are suggesting is thinking about the bigger picture. In a medical setting, holistic refers to addressing the whole person, including their physical, mental and emotional health, while taking social factors into consideration.

Now, I’m guessing the main reaction here is, ‘We’re doing this!’

If it is true, firstly, congratulations! Later, I’ll ask some questions about how you are doing this and make sure you get the most out of your holistic approach, shortly. The research over the last two decades suggested that happy, healthy and well employees are far more productive than the opposite. I think we can all agree that it has become commonly accepted within business.

The question today, is not whether this is important?

But how are we monitoring this and supporting our employees to live happy, healthy and well lives?

The answers to this question is where we will focus. Often when we speak to workplaces, they suggest they do an annual survey, managers are regularly checking in and they have a social calendar of events such as BBQ’s and one-off events. All these initiatives are great and really important and if you have an engaged workforce, we strongly encourage you to continue with all these activities. But what’s happening when these events aren’t going on.

What we are learning as more research is coming out around health and wellbeing, specifically mental health is: These one-off events are missing critical warning signs that would allow early intervention to better support our employees before it becomes a workplace injury or mental health incident.

Our responsibilities as employers is to be ahead of the game.

What we are learning from working with a number of our partners across food, building, manufacturing and distribution industries is that those workplaces that have proactive health and wellbeing monitoring are supporting their employees before it’s too late. Which is improving culture, reducing injuries and incidents, and helping overall productivity.

What is Health & Wellbeing monitoring?

Health and wellbeing monitoring allows businesses to proactively track self-reported mental and physical health measures that act as lead indicators for poor performance and disengaged behaviours.

Health & Wellbeing Monitoring has been utilised effectively in the elite sports context over the past decade. Elite sports organisations will use self-reported measures around athlete stress, sleep quality, fatigue, emotional wellbeing and mental health as lead indicators for injury and poor performance.

Three (3) tips for Health & Wellbeing monitoring?

Tip 1:
Utilise the Employee Monitoring with a specific goal in mind.

Tip 2:
Have proactive strategies in place ready to roll out for factors that are identified as requiring intervention during the Employee Monitoring.

Tip 3:
Commit to no negative outcomes as a result of Employee Monitoring, otherwise, it will damage your culture, and workers will disengage. Use the Employee Monitoring to show you care and boost your workplace’s culture.

The Challenge

Ask every member of your team to rate their sleep quality for the past week.

Once you’re aware of that information, consider how it may have impacted individual and organisational performance over the past week. What could your business do to help your team improve their individual sleep quality?

Once you’ve done sleep, then how about:

  • Exercise
  • Happiness
  • Mental Health
  • Nutrition
  • Energy
  • Stress
  • Fatigue
  • Loneliness
  • Goals…

The list is endless, but with technology and smart devices, this tracking can be completed with a touch of a button. Bringing the integration of technology and wellbeing together for good.

How can we help you?

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