Encouraging Wellness in the Workplace 🙏🏻

[Fit Small Business | ]( HR Insights from the Fit Small Business Experts Sponsor By:                 Promoting Wellness Among Employees   [Promoting wellness]( in a busy workplace is crucial for employee health, [preventing burnout](, productivity, and overall satisfaction. Here are some general tips to create a healthier and more balanced work environment: - Fitness programs: Consider offering fitness programs or gym memberships to employees. - Mental health support: Provide access to mental health resources and encourage employees to seek help if needed. - Stress management resources: Offer stress management workshops or resources like meditation sessions, yoga classes, or relaxation rooms. - Encourage social interaction: Create opportunities for employees to socialize and build relationships with their colleagues. - Wellness challenges: Organize wellness challenges or competitions that encourage healthy behaviors. - Employee feedback: Encourage open communication and gather feedback from employees about their wellness needs and concerns.         You have 44 days to show new hires they made a good choice. Make the first 30 really count with this free Onboarding Roadmap.         Best Apps for Workplace Wellness   The best way to promote a healthy work-life balance is to offer wellness initiatives in the workplace. One way to do this is to offer company-paid subscriptions to wellness apps that your employees can utilize whenever they need to improve their mental and physical wellness. Meditation Apps - [Headspace](: Helps your employees relax and promotes creativity through a series of videos that offer meditation techniques that even beginners can use. It is narrated with calming voices and music to help employees relax and focus. - [Calm](: Uses stories, meditations, music, and more to help your employees achieve a deep level of calm. It claims to help improve health, happiness, and sleep patterns. Fitness Apps - [Strava](: Helps employees stay active by tracking workout performance and offering ways to reach goals. They use fitness clubs and challenges to set goals and measure progress. - [Movespring](: Offers fitness challenges within your organization. Employees can connect with a fitness tracker or smartphone and work together for a common goal. Employee Engagement Apps - [Wellness360](: Offers challenges and a holistic approach to meet the specific wellness needs of your workforce. This app delivers a social hub to help employees stay connected and engaged, challenges and trackers, health risk assessment, coaching, and rewards. - [Culture Amp](: Helps with employee engagement, performance management, and employee development. This app uses pulse survey tools to help businesses understand and improve employee engagement. Sleep Apps - [Sleep Cycle](: Tracks and analyzes sleep patterns and offers adjustments to increase waking productivity. It offers relaxing sleep sounds, snore tracking, tailored sleep programs, and gentle wake-ups for better quality sleep. - [Sleep Score](: Helps support healthier and happier employees by improving sleep quality. Offers personalized and adaptive insights into building healthier sleep habits.     3 Ways to Support Employee Health and Wellness   According to the [State of HR 2023 report]( conducted by the HR Exchange Network, burnout is the biggest challenge to employee engagement. When employees experience burnout, their motivation, enthusiasm, and commitment to their work can decline substantially. To foster employee engagement, organizations should prioritize strategies to prevent and address burnout, such as providing mental health support. Here are three ways how HR can support their employees’ wellness: - Encourage employees to take their entitled annual vacation: Motivate your people to get that much-needed rest. Once recharged, they will return to the workplace happier and more [productive](. - Foster a culture of self-care in your organization: Company culture is the result of a complex interplay between explicit and implicit norms. They are often shaped by the actions and attitudes of leadership, longstanding employees, and the broader organizational environment. Leaders within the organization can build this culture by becoming models of self-care. They can do this by sharing their challenges and strategies to prioritize self-care. - Focus on financial wellness: A [recent study]( by the University of Western Australia showed that there is a clear link between financial stress and depression. - Conduct financial wellness training: To help employees avoid such stress, employers could conduct regular financial wellness training to help employees manage their finances effectively. These could also include topics about debt management, investing, budgeting, retirement planning, and more. Financial wellness training can foster a sense of loyalty and appreciation among employees, as it demonstrates the employer's commitment to their overall well-being beyond just their job responsibilities.     What’s new in HR? Check out some of our latest HR content:   [W-2 vs W-4:]( The W-2 and W-4 forms are important IRS documents for your business and staff. Form W-4 provides information about how much tax should be withheld from your employees’ paychecks, while Form W-2 is used to report annual income and taxes to the IRS. In this guide, we’ll compare both in detail and walk you through when to use each of them. [READ MORE]( [How to Conduct New Employee Orientation:]( Our guide breaks down everything you need to know about new employee orientation - the first official experience new hires have with their employers after joining the team. It should offer a good introduction to the company’s culture and the employee’s job duties, provide an opportunity to complete any required paperwork, and include presentations, training sessions, and access to the tools needed for success. [READ MORE](         Meet Fit Small Business’ HR & Payroll Experts   [-Jennifer Hartman, HR Staff Writer & Human Resources Expert]( [-Jennifer Hartman, HR Staff Writer & Human Resources Expert]( [-Jennifer Hartman, HR Staff Writer & Human Resources Expert]( [Heather Landau]( [Jennifer Soper]( [Robie Ann Ferrer](   [-Jennifer Hartman, HR Staff Writer & Human Resources Expert]( Want to Join Our HR Community? Check us out on LinkedIn! [-Jennifer Hartman, HR Staff Writer & Human Resources Expert]( [Juvy Vallescas]( [Genevieve Que](     Curious about how self-service portals can help your team access? 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