Supporting holistic employees is good in the bottom line

Therapeutic association is behind the stress source

We spend most of our lives in our work. We make friends, establish relationships with the colleges and plan our retirement age based on our active lives at the workplace. But how healthy is the working environment through working time? The answer to this question is increasingly on the growing number of companies providing employee support programs.

Everyone was cold or flu, which was "in the office" or caused allergic reactions to fluid cleaning or strong perfumes in the workplace. Some workplaces require physical fitness and high risk of accidents. Regardless of job descriptions, we accept deadlines, recurring routines, and environments that we can not control. The result is a lot of stress that can give us the "office area". Employers are now beginning to recognize the relationship between work and mental and physical health. The opportunity for family life to workplace pressure, workplace stress and excellence becomes the focus of human resource professionals. The concept is not whether we are sick. This is the environment in which we work and the impact of this environment on our lives, our attitudes to our work, and how we can cope with stress and work or family pressure.

Employers are also starting to connect with productivity. Twenty-five percent of workers want holistic health, and 85 percent of those surveyed believe that holistic health reduces the cost of helping employees.

Husky Injection Moldings is a company that did not need public opinion research. Husky employs 1,400 people in his factory in Bolton, Ontario. An employee of eight healthcare workers, including a medical and naturopathic physician (ND). The employee support program includes consultations on ND and health education programs such as information fairs. The program manager calls for the inclusion of naturopathic treatments on the program "Cadillac". According to Husky, naturopathic doctors are the key to prevention and training of employees. The Husky example is just one way to address the problems of workplace wellbeing.

Afflicting our health, workplace problems can be solved easily. For example, many people spend most of their working hours on the computer screen. Mostly, the screen we are watching is higher or lower than our neck and head. This can force us to accept a disgusting job that could endanger the health for a long time. By simply increasing or reducing the screen, we can help improve our posture.

Workplace stress management is more complex. These tensions include coping with environmental sensitivity, such as dust or mold (statistics show that most chemical sensitivities affect about 15% of the population), air quality in closed office buildings or industrial workplaces, fluorescent lighting and seasonal emotional disturbances, and communication with your colleagues to name a few.

The British Columbia Naturopathic Association (BCNA) has recently created a profile of work environment and strategies. Employee Support Strategies include seminars for staff and management, interactive workshops and educational materials. BCNA also offers seminars that include physical testing, basic health checks, blood circulation, and other areas of health care.

For the first time, the Association conducted stress management workshops for Canadian trainers. It contained an interactive seminar with an ND who dealt with the relationship between stress / body, nutritional tips, helping our body in treating stress, as well as simple stress-reducing exercises and activities. Canada Trust also held conservation fairs and various workshops for its employees. Human Resources Manager Olivia McIvor notes that Canada Trust is generally aimed at promoting health and well-being.

Is the holistic approach also a "new age" for healthcare for individual employee support plans? Of course – some people do not see the relationship between home stress and anxiety in the office. Some people never took the time to stop, focus, and deal with what they are doing and how they do it. They do not seek ways and means to integrate the mind, body, and spirit into their workplace and their private lives. But top-ranking companies such as Royal Bank, KPMG, Aetna and others have a leading role and offer employees the opportunity to explore prosperity through various complementary ways. Even if the employer's staff provides these staff with help, do they have any personal benefits? Absolutely. Canada Trust is experiencing a 17 percent downturn in the 18-month program. Telus, another company employing similar programs that was available to staff, showed a 28 percent lower absence among employees. As McIvor notes, access to alternative exercises can help staff achieve a better intellectual, physical, and emotional balance. Companies such as Telus, Royal Bank and Husky are achieving this balance, but they are improving in the "bottom line". Employee support for monitoring healthcare improvements and reducing business costs is a decisive factor in this new focus on holistic health. Make sure the employee support program provides a healthy balance, but it is a success for the employers.

Source by Dave Turo