Employee Well-being and Engagement Corner: My Views, My Vote – Wellness

If you’ve been reading the announcements in Communiqué and have visited the Employee Well-Being and Engagement website, you probably know that we are looking for you to define Humber’s Employee Well-Being and Engagement Framework. The first step towards this outcome is to vote on the suggested Dimensions and Drivers. Since your vote and views matter, we will be sharing more information over the next two weeks that will assist in preparing you to confidently choose those Dimensions and Drivers that matter to you.

Look out for more in this series entitled: My Views, My Vote. We will feature different Dimensions and Drivers and you will hear directly from your fellow employees in upcoming Employee News Network (ENN) videos.

Understanding Wellness

What does wellness look like to you? When you envision someone who is “well” and “healthy,” what comes to mind? What factors do you think influence wellness?

We have defined Wellness as the “Organizational practices that promote physical, mental, financial, and social wellness". Employee wellness looks at the individual and encourages them to make healthy lifestyle choices, with the purpose of benefiting them and the culture in which they work. It broadly covers health promotion, the prevention of ill health and the factors that help determine how healthy someone is, in both body and mind. We have also included financial wellness and work life balance as part of this dimension, as both have been identified as leading causes of stress.

The four drivers of Wellness are identified as:

  • Mental Resilience
  • Physical Wellness
  • Financial Wellness
  • Work-Life Balance

Here are some examples of what many organizations do related to wellness: holding a health fair; incentives for participation in wellness programs; running/walking/hiking clubs; installing massage chairs at work for all to use; on-site flu shots and ‘take blood pressure readings’ clinics.  

For more information about this dimension and to view other proposed dimensions please visit humber.ca/hroe/oe. Don’t miss the next Well-Being group for discussion; Work Well-Being.

 

Want to participate in the Employee Well-being and Engagement Initiative?

Register to attend an Information Session and voting. Click here to register.