Day: May 24, 2019

Culture and change
Emma Browning

Never mind e=mc2.  Wellbeing2=profits10

I need to clear something up! What do we actually mean by employee wellbeing? To this day, wellbeing remains a hotly contested word, with various definitions and spellings and still remains “conceptually muddy.  What I can assure you though – it definitely isn’t ‘wellness’. “Workplace wellness” is usually linked with the word “health” and unsurprisingly the focus is mostly on employee physical health such as being at a healthy weight, nutrition, exercise, gym membership and stopping smoking etc.  All extremely worthwhile and creditable for sure, but they alone, will not…
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Culture and change
Emma Browning

Give your staff a ‘hygge hug’ today

Hygge, the art of enjoying everyday life, is credited with making the Danes the world’s happiest nation in the world – despite having to endure endlessly long dark winters and one of the highest costs of living in the world! Hygge roughly translates into cosiness and is oft thought to derive from the English word hug. In practice, hygge is about creating cosy and congenial environments that promote emotional wellbeing. Given that happy employees are not only more helpful, engaged and motivated, but also more creative, calmer and less likely…
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