Why Invest in Employee Health and Wellbeing?

As an employer, employee health and wellbeing is needed to support employees. Most importantly, this helps to maintain positive mental health. Support at work means employees can be open about their mental health. Overall, investing in employee health and wellbeing is vital for the following three reasons:

• Business: it will reduce absences due to sickness, therefore saving money

• Legal: By law, employers must protect their employees in terms of their mental health

• Moral: it is an employer’s moral duty to care about their employees’ mental health

Business

First, a company is always aiming to make money. In other words, supporting staff through their mental health struggles means spending less on sickness. Therefore, keeping the team happy. Also, employers can benefit from supporting employee health and wellbeing for many reasons. For example:

•Productivity at work

• Reduced absences

• Lower sickness levels

• Minimises unnecessary spending

All of the above reasons help with creating a positive, productive space at work. In other words, if the employees are happy, then so is the employer! It is crucial for all employees to feel they can talk about their mental health to focus on their work. For example, suppose someone is struggling at home without a safe space to talk about it. In that case, they will bring their struggles into work, and as a result, they will become unproductive. Therefore, they could develop more mental health issues as they may not feel valued.

Legal

Employers legally must protect their employees. Therefore, if businesses support employee health and wellbeing, they can boost health and wellbeing in the workplace. Employers must help their employees for the following reasons:

• Provide a safe working environment for employees

• Protect staff from discrimination

• Ensure health and wellbeing in the workplace

If someone is suffering without proper support in place, the employee can take their employer to court. In other words, the company would have to spend more money to keep the employee happy. Therefore, by supporting them from the start, they can help prevent this from happening.

On the other hand, it is equally essential for employees to reach out if they struggle with their mental health and wellbeing. Reaching out is not always easy. However, if there is support in place, they will feel more comfortable doing so.

Moral

All organisations have a moral duty for employee health and wellbeing. As a result, the focus must be on staff’s mental and physical wellbeing.

As well as employers legally having to help their employees, they should want to help them. Particularly in the current global pandemic, mental health has become a struggle for many. Therefore, employers must show a moral duty of care to employee health and wellbeing.

Employers are responsible for their employees’ health and wellbeing in the workplace. An employer’s moral duty benefits the working space in many ways. For example:

• Boosts productivity

• Improves work ethic

• It makes going to work more enjoyable

• Prevents employees’ absences due to sickness

• Builds trust in the employer

When we spend so much time at work, it is so important that we are happy doing what we do! Work can affect our home life in the same way our home life can affect our job. In other words, employee health and wellbeing has never been more important!

By being productive at work, your employer will be happy. As a result, we are also relaxed and comfortable at work.

Support and Help

Tackling health and wellbeing in the workplace can be complex. Therefore, for extra help in supporting employee health and wellbeing, visit TT Training Academy.

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