As increasingly competitive work environments continue to blur the boundaries between work and home, people are spending more time with their colleagues than ever before. One fact that clearly differentiates successful workplaces of today is happy employees.
A happy employee is a motivated, loyal and productive one. That is why ensuring an employee’s well-being is now considered integral to a company’s overall success.
Stress is often highlighted as among the top factors impacting productivity and happiness at the workplace – and this is especially true in the GCC region. In fact, research shows that highly stressed individuals take an average of 4.7 days off and can cost the company about 16.4 days of productivity.[1]
There are several ways to de-stress the workplace:
[1] 2017 Cigna 360 Wellbeing Survey https://www.cigna.com.hk/iwov-resources/docs/en/about-cigna/news/Cigna360Well-being_Survey2017.pdf
[2] 2017 Happiness in the Middle East survey by YouGov and Bayt.com https://img0bm.b8cdn.com/images/uploads/article_docs/bayt-happiness-survey-01_2017_en_32530_EN.pdf
[3] Fruitful Office survey http://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/article/159071/fruit-at-work-boosts-productivity
[1] Willis TowerWatson 2015/2016 Staying@Work survey file:///C:/Users/cabraham/Downloads/Staying-at-Work-Global-2016.pdf
[1] 2017 Cigna 360 Wellbeing Survey https://www.cigna.com.hk/iwov-resources/docs/en/about-cigna/news/Cigna360Well-being_Survey2017.pdf
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