Global Wellbeing

I went to a session at the Work Foundation the other week, one of the banks was presenting their wellbeing program. There was nothing earth shattering in the program, it had all the things you might expect, PMI, HRA, portal, on-site promotions, EAP. For me what was most important was that wellbeing had become a culture, just as safety has become a culture. It shows that organisations can achieve great things without massive work and that a wellbeing culture can exist. Making someone responsible for it has massive advantages, as the work actually gets done.

Their biggest challenge was making it global. What they didnt have was data on what was out there across their global business, and performance stats. This is a big problem that i have seen many times globally and in the UK. Without data its all uphill. Absence is a base metric that an organisation must understand, it drives so much else. It shows the culture and attitude, management approach and solution focus. From good absence data an organisation can begin to undertsand itself and look to resolve any problems in their health management.