Enhancing Emotional Well-being in the Workplace: The Key Challenge for Companies

2023-10-11 14:12:12

Mental health has become more relevant over the years. In the Laboral scene, Emotional well-being is one of the main challenges that companies face since they must respond to the new needs of employees.

In this sense, there is still a long way to go since, generally, corporate wellness programs involve financial and physical aspects, rather than emotional ones. In fact, according to ‘The Human Resources Trends Study 2023produced by Sodexo Benefits and Incentives, only 12% of Spanish companies have emotional well-being programs for their employees despite the fact that for workers it is a determining factor. This percentage varies depending on the number of employees in the company: it drops to 2.8% in those with less than 50 employees, increases to 17.6% in companies with 51-250 employees and stands at 20% in those with more than 250.

The study also reflects that The main reason why more than half of employees are dissatisfied with their benefit plans is that they consider them insufficient. Therefore, companies must improve their corporate well-being models by adding aspects related to emotional and psychological well-being, which, in essence, are the implementation of measures that contribute to taking care of the mental health of workers and help reduce stress.

And an adequate level of emotional well-being in people translates into a pleasant work environment, as well as happy and productive employees. Therefore, Companies must work to create a professional environment with programs that promote this aspect. Many of them are already considering it and, in fact, according to data from the same study, emotional well-being programs They are the third benefit that companies that currently do not have a benefits program for their employees will incorporate the most, with a 23,1%the same percentage as other historically more popular benefits such as transportation card o to contribution to the pension plan.

To mention some examples of how to incorporate these programs into the day-to-day life of the company, it is possible to offer psychological assistance that involves professional advice that goes hand in hand with employees at different stages of their working life. The programas de well-being corporate can help enhance emotional intelligence and stress management through dialogue and exercises.

For their part, the conciliation policies can help reduce work stress by allowing a balance between the employee’s personal and family life, while flexible remuneration It offers useful services for everyday life, at a lower cost than if it were contracted individually.

According to Miriam Martín, Director of Marketing and Communication at Sodexo Benefits and Incentives“promoting the emotional well-being of employees should be one of the main objectives of companies, since having healthy work environments is essential for workers to be motivated and committed to their company.”

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