Enhancing wellbeing in the office workplace : What employer could do better to have healthier employees?
Lehtinen, Rosa-Lea (2018)
Lehtinen, Rosa-Lea
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201805168493
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201805168493
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Employers come to realization that employee wellbeing is more and more important factor not only from business perspective but also from perspective of a healthy company. Happy and healthy workers are not only productive but also less absent from work. Absenteeism results in great numbers – it is truly a cost issue. However, reasons for absenteeism are not easy to find or monitor. Overall absenteeism is rather complex issue. Nevertheless, the greatest reason or absenteeism according to re-search was personal illness.
In order to cut costs resulted from absenteeism employers should be more interested in employees’ health and wellbeing. There are numerous ways of how it could be done. However, researchers suggest clear strategy plan in order to enhance employee well-being. Defining areas of improvement is crucial. Many companies in Finland offer gym membership to their employees, but is that enough? What is overall wellbeing? Based on research material, this thesis describes very well what are the parts of the human wellbeing. However, many of us battle with the stress sooner or later. What is stress and how it impacts the body both in positive and negative way? In this thesis I wanted to take more profound, research based, approach to stress management and handling the stress. Finally wrapping up to how overall wellbeing could be handled by employer suggesting that best solution would be individual health program for every worker.
In order to cut costs resulted from absenteeism employers should be more interested in employees’ health and wellbeing. There are numerous ways of how it could be done. However, researchers suggest clear strategy plan in order to enhance employee well-being. Defining areas of improvement is crucial. Many companies in Finland offer gym membership to their employees, but is that enough? What is overall wellbeing? Based on research material, this thesis describes very well what are the parts of the human wellbeing. However, many of us battle with the stress sooner or later. What is stress and how it impacts the body both in positive and negative way? In this thesis I wanted to take more profound, research based, approach to stress management and handling the stress. Finally wrapping up to how overall wellbeing could be handled by employer suggesting that best solution would be individual health program for every worker.