Five easy and affordable subscriptions to improve well-being at work
Workplace benefits towards health and well-being are now a must have rather than a bonus for employers. Developing a good company culture means striving to include a variety of open communications, social events, lifestyle benefits, and get active initiatives. All of these elements lead to a more wholesome working environment that stimulates productivity, decreases absence rates, and fosters loyalty from employees.
Demanding more than financial remuneration alone, employees now want a positive work-life balance and more opportunities to support their modern healthy lifestyle. To help you achieve a positive working environment and promote your business culture, here are 5 affordable ways employers can encourage people back to the office with stress-free subscriptions to increase wellness at work.
- Get active with a workplace fitness subscription
- Healthy snacks on subscription
- Fresh and filtered drinking water subscription
- Employee support with a mindful subscription
- Office plant subscription
- Which water subscription is best for my workplace?
1) Get active with a workplace fitness subscription
We all know how important daily exercise is to our bodies and minds. Nowadays, providing employees access to a gym or fitness area may appear like more of a ‘traditional perk’, but after facing the reality and hardship of navigating our way through a global pandemic, both health and finance have become a main concern for employers and employees alike.
Workplace fitness is now a crucial attraction to draw talented employees. The recent Engage employee app alone reported a 32% increase in the demand for gym membership discounts from employees, with employers creating team building workouts to help bolster team morale and productivity.
From The Gym Group, to Pure Gym corporate subscriptions, employers want a more active and beneficial work life experience. While some employers, such as Google, are financially able to provide running tracks, most employees today look for on-site gym facilities or access to gym or fitness areas through employer-supported or subsidised membership.
It’s well established that after exercising, our bodies release endorphins helping relieve stress and hone concentration. As such, promoting a pro-active ‘workout to work smart’ mentality is a time-tested way that can strengthen the in-house productivity, creating a win-win scenario for Human Resource departments with employee’s physical health a crucial part in any corporate health and well-being strategy.
It’s true – a super corporation like Google has the funds to build running tracks for their staff, however, organising a corporate gym membership can offer employers similar benefits with an achievable monthly cost.
2) Healthy snacks on subscription
Much like the traditional gym access, office snacks are a well recognised perk within the workplace. However, sugary snacks and weekly cakes have had their day! Now, employers are realising the benefits of healthy snacks, and employees are looking for something that is more in tune with their personal lifestyle choices.
Businesses like Graze or Feedr are perfect examples of how you can personalise freshly cooked foods, and healthy snacks, to provide balanced meals that reward your staff. The old client lunches of the past, filled with fats and carbohydrates that would leave people dozing off at their desk, have now been replaced with healthy and nutritious meals that help fuel the working day – keeping everyone feeling fresh, full, and productive.
You don’t need the funds to have an office chef. Simply by providing healthy and nutritious snacks through a simple subscription, from an Office Pantry fruit basket service, to a full Eurest corporate office catering service, or a speedy employee subscription from Graze, you’ll be providing an easy way to support workplace well-being. Just one simple subscription and your new healthy snacks will arrive right when your team needs them.
3) Fresh and filtered drinking water subscription
From Healthy food to healthy hydration; most of us enjoy a coffee in the morning, but all of us need water to keep us feeling productive and focused throughout the day.
Most offices provide coffee and tea to their staff, often through an OCS (office coffee service) with companies like FreshGround or Liquidline, on a subscription based service. But what is most important for encouraging workplace well-being is the benefits provided by a filtered drinking water subscription.
Providing a variety of fresh and filtered drinking water options, whether it’s sparkling, ambient, hot, or cold, water coolers for the modern office will encourage healthy habits that promote well-being alongside productivity – keeping every employee’s spirits high, and tastes satisfied.
From a hot and chilled water tap like the T3, to a sparkling and chilled water cooler like the B6, a premium water tap or water dispenser is a sure way to boost health and concentration in the office, and with no upfront costs on a water subscription, this healthy benefit can easily be bolted onto your coffee service or as a standalone subscription. Moreover, with Totality® hygiene assurance in every Borg & Overström dispenser, you can be positive that you’re drinking water that is clean, fresh, and filtered – perfect for your staff.
Essential and beneficial in all aspects of life, premium drinking water is a benefit that helps everyone achieve better health. Essential to productivity and wellness, a water dispenser subscription or rental is an easy way to revitalise your staff and enhance the working environment – just remember to keep a favourite cordial, or add a touch of lemon from the fruit basket, for some added zest!
4) Employee support with mindful subscriptions
As understanding towards mental health grows, there is more demand on employers to provide support for their staff as part of their duty of care, becoming vital in the development of a positive and welcoming business culture.
From food nutrition, to healthy hydration, through to mindful meditation – In every walk of life, whoever you are and whatever you do for work, people want the security to know that they can rely on their employers to help support and maintain their working lifestyle in times of hardship.
This support can be provided in numerous ways, from free apps like Headspace that provide a wealth of counselling resources, with the option of employer subscriptions, to paid EAP (employee assistance programme) subscriptions from Wellbeing Solutions.
Now, employer attention to mental health concerns is more than an obligation towards their duty of care. Companies like Barclays and Microsoft pride themselves on sharing employee mental health stories that are resolved in building working confidence, fostering company loyalty, and encouraging collaboration and teamwork. Connection between employee’s well-being and productivity is well researched with better supported employees being more productive and able to focus on the task in hand.
It has never been easier to provide support to your staff – with easily accessible mental well-being apps, organised company training days, and subscriptions that offer trained professionals as well as an abundance of online resources – a mental well-being subscription is an affordable method that addresses this need, helping to unify and create a positive working philosophy.
5) Office plant subscription
Modern workplaces are bold, brilliant, beautiful, and… green!
Outside of promoting physical health, better nutrition, better hydration, and open lines of communication for mental health, investing into a greener and more attractive working environment has also proven to create a healthier and more productive workplace.
Central to our biodiverse world, positioning plant life around the office area helps clean unhealthy toxins, purify the air, and inspires creativity. Connecting employees back to their roots, plant life stimulates the imagination while also providing healthy oxygen, with Ciphr studies showing the many ways in which a greener office can provide employee and employer benefits, from stress relief to reduced sickness and absence rates.
With a plan subscription, you don’t need to worry about being greenfingered or knowledgable about plant life. You can enhance the office aesthetics and elevate your brand style and company culture, without the hassle of botanical nursing. Plant care and making sure your greenery stays healthy is all included in the package – the beauty of a paid and planned plant subscription.
Whether you subscribe to a Funky Yukka office display, or a more classic Inleaf office plant look, you can bring out the colour of your workplace and your workforce by adding a consolidating theme – turning a dark and dingy corporate look into a vibrant and bright working environment for all. With maintenance included, all you need to do is find the subscription and look for your office and watch as your employees turn up, enjoy the benefits, and watch inspired creativity blossom.
Which water subscription is best for my workplace?
As a leading brand in the world of water taps and dispensers, Borg & Overström have been inspiring workplace productivity and well-being through design-led manufacturing for over 20 years.
We know the importance of staying hydrated and can help you find the perfect solution that will enhance your workplace hydration – leading to increased profitability, productivity, and employee satisfaction.
If you want to learn more about the best premium water system fit for you – contact us – our expert staff are ready and waiting to help you.
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