Tag: employee wellbeing

Media publications around the world are buzzing with anecdotal evidence of what has been called The Great Resignation – the COVID-19 lockdown-driven reassessment by individuals of the meaning of work in their lives. 2022 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning where employees and organisations both determine what is important for them and how they can continue to work together.

COVID-19 has drastically and irrevocably changed the way that the world works. Even as South Africa moves forward into semi-normalcy, the looming 'fourth wave' reminds businesses of the need to remain agile, embrace remote working policies, and lean on technology that drives productivity even as traditional working cultures fall away.

The working environment had drastically changed over the past two years, with short-term changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic becoming permanent. With a skills shortage in South Africa and employers competing for the best talent, it’s important that these new trends and ways of working are understood in order to attract and retain the best employees.

The notion of what makes a good leader has been examined from every angle over the years, leaving leaders with an overwhelming number of qualities they are expected to possess in order to be considered a good leader. While fads come and go, the one constant every leader must consider is people.

Since the pandemic began, Work-From-Home (WFH) has been lauded as the new working model for many occupations. Now, with vaccination efforts ramping up, some employers are eager to get their staff back to the office. Organisations need to plan and execute that migration sensibly and with sensitivity to keep productivity high.

This book has been put together by experts in the field of mental health, and associated fields, whom have been carefully chosen to share their insights on a specific knowledge area with you.

New research highlights that now, more than ever, employee mindsets really matter. As COVID-19 continues to reshape our world, business leaders are asking themselves how they can protect  their organisations against future crises and remain sustainably successful amid unrelenting change and uncertainty in a post-pandemic world.

If businesses have learned one thing during the pandemic it is that resilience, rather than being a tactic to respond to crisis, is a discipline cultivated over time. Today, to not have a digital strategy is to not have a strategy. To build resilience at work, organisations need to start thinking about virtual and remote models, provision of tools that enable collaboration from anywhere, and strategies to look after their peoples’ mental health and wellbeing.

The business case for dealing with mental health and wellbeing in the workplace is absolutely clear. Not only are the workplace costs associated with poor mental health significant, but positive mental health (manifested as employee engagement and other positive mental health states) has been found to play a key role in organisational success.

There has never been a more critical time than now for employers to celebrate worker’s month by providing their employees with structured wellbeing programmes with a particular focus on financial wellbeing that can ultimately affect the bottom line if not managed effectively.