EVOLVE Business and Professional Magazine August 2020 | Page 32

WHEN
“Care”
COMPANIES
EMPLOYEE HEALTH, STRESS &
ENGAGEMENT SIGNIFICANTLY
IMPROVED
To understand what has the most profound impact on
employee wellness, you need to look beyond the existence
of wellness programs.
According to the Global Wellness Institute findings, if an
employee identified their company as “caring about their
health/wellness,” that employee’s overall health, stress and
job engagement/satisfaction improved significantly.
WHAT IS “CARING”?
Among “tangibles,” compensation, benefits and recognition impact
worker wellness most.
Caring companies are also more likely to provide employees with a
wellness program than the non-caring (67% vs. 41%) – and encourage/
offer a host of healthy options, like regular exercise (58% vs. 20%),
healthy eating (57% vs. 21%), meditation (20% vs. 7%), stress reduction
(35% vs. 13%), mental health services (56% vs. 34%), and wellness
coaching (38% vs. 24%.)
Data suggests that what it means to be a healthy,
caring company isn’t one-size-fits-all. If an employee
identified their company as “caring about their health/
wellness” that employee’s overall health, stress and
job engagement/satisfaction improved significantly.
For example: Fifty-seven percent of employees at
“caring” companies rate their health/wellness high,
vs. only 39% at “non-caring” companies. Only 8% at
caring companies report poor personal health, vs. 21%
at non-caring companies.
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