Top Workplace Wellness and Well-Being Ideas to Counter Stress

 Employee health and productivity are being decimated by stress, both physically and emotionally. Almost half of all American workers say their jobs are incredibly stressful. Reducing workplace stress is critical for your organization's success and will benefit everyone involved. 

Stress Reduction in the Workplace

 

If your employees' stress is not addressed and supported in healthy ways, you will spend much too much time putting out fires and dealing with a turnover rather than positively influencing the firm. It is critical to incorporate stress management into your workplace wellness and well-being program.

 

Ironically, just figuring out how to de-stress or maintain your team stress-free can be challenging. So we've collected a comprehensive list of strategies to assist in reducing stress for the previously outlined health issues, as well as to begin changing the culture around stress management.

 

Provide Chair Massages at Workplace Events

 

Your staff should be able to sign up for a brief chair massage at least once a week. Just five minutes with a competent therapist can radically shift someone's mood for the rest of the day.

Attach it at the back of a large meeting or training. Make sure there are enough massage chairs for any social or health-related workplace events. You might not even need to pay a massage professional. If you're ready to let them sell or advertise their enterprises, they might be willing to come in for an hour, help a few individuals, and then wind up with long-term clientele.

 

Encourage Relaxation Periods

 

Establish a norm that permits your employees to do more than take a ten-minute toilet break twice or three times per day. Allow them to sit in a quiet area designated for mindfulness or meditation. Provide maps or ideas for walking trails that will take them away from their work location. Allow them to close their office doors and slumber for 30 minutes.

 

Provide a workout area with gym equipment, or offer brief lessons with an instructor, such as yoga or cardio. A small library with books and movies to enjoy or a full kitchen where workers can enjoy cooking their lunch or a treat for the entire office.

 

Possess a Sense of Humor

 

Laughter plays a significant role in workplace wellness and well-being. It should be encouraged daily. Laughter swiftly releases vital hormones and endorphins and can have a positive impact on someone without any effort. Small competitions should be held to generate amicable banter. Alternatively, ask clean comedians to hang out during lunch breaks and deliver a short set.

 

Post cartoons and jokes about the job you're all doing around the office. Laughter, after all, is the best medicine, especially for stress relief.

 

Books and Resources for Self-Help

 

Maintain a modest library near your break room with self-help books and information on a variety of themes. Employees can borrow and return these items. Have multiple copies of popular goods on hand, as well as other options than only weight reduction or financial fitness books.

 

Survey your employees and find out what they want access to. It's easier for them than searching for something online or going to their local library when it's already available wherever they go most days.

 

Secret Friends

 

Employees can anonymously draw the name of a coworker and dedicate acts of service or compassion to them, similar to Secret Santa, during the holidays. This can be done only around the holidays or during a service effort. It might be a regular activity carried out every other month or around significant business events.

 

Make it clear that everything done for Secret Pals should not require an excessive amount of time or money. This is intended to bring joy to both the donors and the recipients. It should not cause additional stress because of expectations that imply forced commitment. It should be lighthearted, entertaining, and exciting, giving your staff a chance to get out of their heads and do something nice for someone they see regularly.