With thousands and thousands of employees affected by stress, we discover the pandemic growth in wellness assist
That is the podcast about doing work in a different way. Be a part of host Isabel Berwick each Wednesday for skilled evaluation and watercooler chat about ahead-of-the-curve office tendencies, the massive concepts shaping work at this time — and the previous habits we have to go away behind.
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The wellness trade is a trillion-dollar enterprise, and the pandemic has turbo-charged it. One of many greatest tendencies has been the rise in employers shopping for their workers entry to meditation and health apps. However does this ‘fast repair’ strategy work? And are there higher methods to spice up wellbeing ?
Isabel talks to Lorna Borenstein, chief government of Grokker, a company wellness app concerning the the explanation why she arrange the platform and the way shoppers and her personal workers use it. It’s all a part of a tradition of taking good care of staff – a subject Lorna has explored extra deeply in her e book It’s Private, providing recommendation to different managers on methods to assist workers really feel higher [tl;dr: talk less, listen more].We additionally communicate to FT colleague Emma Jacobs, concerning the company care tradition. She is a bit more skeptical.
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Talked about within the podcast and different attention-grabbing studying:
- Emma Jacobs’ prophetic pre-pandemic information to office wellness by app: https://www.ft.com/content material/d1d58aae-437c-11ea-abea-0c7a29cd66fe
- FT sequence, Burnout: https://www.ft.com/burnout
- Deloitte report [2020] on worker psychological well being displaying £5 profit for each £1 spent: https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/consulting/articles/mental-health-and-employers-refreshing-the-case-for-investment.html
- Video, Emma Jacobs on methods to detox out of your smartphone: https://www-ft-com.newman.richmond.edu/video/b4115321-b915-3a42-9814-ad0be4c0e7f5?playlist-name=section-0b83bc44-4a55-4958-882e-73ba6b2b0aa6&playlist-offset=206
Offered by Isabel Berwick. Editorial path from Renée Kaplan. Assistant producer is Persis Love. Sound design is by Breen Turner, with authentic music from Metaphor Music. Produced by Novel.
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