Employee Benefits: inclusive physical wellbeing

Companies that want to survive and thrive in 2022 need to take a human approach to business, and that starts with offering diverse and inclusive employee wellbeing.  

‘The Great Resignation’ and the war for talent has highlighted the need for leaders to update their wellbeing strategies. Currently, physical wellbeing benefits can fail to serve the broad demographic encountered in the modern workforce, across factors such as age, gender, and ability. 

As employers look to differentiate their employer brand and employee benefits proposition to retain and attract talent, this attention to detail becomes critical. 60% of employees say they’d feel more motivated and more likely to recommend their organisation as a good place to work if their employer took action to support mental wellbeing. 

It’s no secret that physical wellbeing has a direct impact on mental wellbeing, which in turn influences productivity and ultimately, profitability. Inclusive physical wellbeing benefits can and should be an option offered to all in a supportive and encouraging way, rather than targeted purely to those who already embrace exercise. 

A more active workforce

The need to optimise workplace health benefits and to encourage more of the workforce to become more active, more often, is crucial to mental health and productivity.  

Lumina Wellbeing includes a fitness hub, to help balance both physical and mental wellbeing through the use of online exercise videos and mindfulness-based workouts.  

Created by fitness trainers and rehab specialists, there’s everything you’d expect such as HIIT, yoga, strength & conditioning, low-intensity workouts, desk-based exercises, and rehabilitation drills; critically, it also includes active aging and children’s routines to ensure the wider demographics of the workforce are not ostracised.

Inclusive physical wellbeing

Regular activity can dramatically improve health. It can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 50%, heart disease, and stroke by 35%, breast cancer by 20%, and much more – reported by the NHS.  

It’s, therefore, important that all employees have access to some form of physical activity. Regardless of age, fitness, or motivation on any given day, Employees will be able to work on improving their body composition, reducing stress, regulating emotions, and improving stamina and mobility – all from any location. 

Easily accessible

According to the British Psychological Society (BPS) in a typical working week, people spend on average 5 hours and 41 minutes per day sitting at their desk.

Most of us are already aware – sitting all day behind a desk is bad for our health. The more sedentary we are, the higher the risk for obesity related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.  

As a result of the pandemic, it is plausible to suggest that many more of us are telecommuting. With only a short break in-between the next zoom call, it takes some creative thinking and self-discipline, to ensure that employees remain both physically and mentally active when sat behind a desk for most of the day – in a healthy way. 

 It’s important to give employees easy access to physical wellbeing solutions, encouraging them, and giving them the option to move. 

Lumina from Amba

Lumina is an employee engagement portal that links employee benefits and your people technology into one, easy to use, dashboard. 

You decide the right tiles and products for your business, so your employees can manage their working lives, all in one place. 

The Lumina Wellbeing tile encourages employees to prioritise their health, reducing absenteeism. You can link out to your existing wellbeing solutions and providers or implement one of ours.  

We would be delighted to show you how Lumina could work for your business.

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