Improving employee wellness across local government should be a top priority for employers that want to reduce stress-related absence and long-term poor mental wellbeing.
Challenges To Employee Wellness In Local Government
Local Authorities face many challenges when it comes to keeping staff healthy. With many of these issues being complex and ever-shrinking budgets, it is still vital that councils do what they can to look after the wellbeing of their people.
At Wellspace, we understand implementing installing a workplace wellness scheme can seem difficult to Local Authorities, due to limited budgets, and a lack of expertise in corporate wellness. Wellspace offers a high-tech, yet affordable solution for busy council leaders that are looking to be proactive about the health of their team.
The Wellspace Solution: Corporate Wellbeing For Councils
Wellspace provides an industry-leading corporate wellbeing solution for councils that want to improve the physical and mental health and morale of their teams.
Using our sophisticated technology, employees can record and track key health indicators such as sleep quality and length, fitness levels, and mood.
Employee data is gathered anonymously and compiled in the Wellspace Portal for managers to view. These comprehensive health reports give leaders a better understanding of the needs of their team and where support and resources are needed.
If desired, competitions and challenges can be set up between employees to help them reach their fitness goals. Employees are also able to use their app to access a wealth of resources centred around wellness and fitness.
As well as providing a digital solution, Wellspace also offers learning through our in-house team of wellbeing experts. Employees can be provided with one-to-one or group training on a wide range of topics all centred around wellbeing.
Challenges To Employee Wellness In Local Government
Local Authorities face many challenges when it comes to keeping staff healthy. With many of these issues being complex and ever-shrinking budgets, it is still vital that councils do what they can to look after the wellbeing of their people.
Council employees are under increasing amounts of stress. A demanding job, limited resources, shrinking budgets, and sometimes, unhealthy work cultures can all lead to work-related stress. In turn, this can cause longer-term mental ill health and even issues with physical health.
Stress, depression, anxiety, mental health & fatigue was cited as the cause of absence in 26.8% of cases – local government workforce data 2021
Self-reported sickness absence data also suggest that workers across local government suffer high levels of work-related stress – Health and Safety Executive
At Wellspace, we understand implementing installing a workplace wellness scheme can seem difficult to Local Authorities, due to limited budgets, and a lack of expertise in corporate wellness. Wellspace offers a high-tech, yet affordable solution for busy council leaders that are looking to be proactive about the health of their team.
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