Employee Wellness Program - need input

[oldrider]

Wellness is primarily driven by feeling good about ones self, what one does, why they do it, how they do it, who they do it for or with - I.E. inclusiveness in purpose with responsibility for outcomes.

Participation and involvement in the purpose of business is generally infectious - people thrive on feeling needed and appreciated.

In that type of environment wellness should be self promoting. (just saying Oakie - good luck with it)

[Ocean1]

Offering an employee wellness program as an added value instead of more pay can save shitloads in salaries and wages.

I'll take the cash, thanks.

Even if the boss IS paying the FBT on whatever PC bullshit they eventually decide on.

[TerminalAddict]

https://www.lightwirebusiness.com/bl...-keep-aligned/

[jellywrestler]

my wellness is impoved when customers pay their bills, everything else is up to me

[JimO]

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[far queue]

[Swoop]

Put in an underground range in the carpark.
Being able to put 50 rounds downrange through the day is a great relaxant.

[EJK]

Put in an underground range in the carpark.
Being able to put 50 rounds downrange through the day is a great relaxant.

With the boss standing at the other end, blindfolded?

[Oakie]

hookers for lunch.
pants-optional thursdays.
minimum blood-alcohol content to attend meetings.
(pork) spit roast fridays.
bring your kids to work and hit someone elses for a change.
wife swap.
hannukah.
secret satan (not a typo).
issue everyone firearms.
forward chain-emails.
discuss the benefits of accepting jesus christ as your lord and saviour. start a "fortunately-unfortunately"
play hackey sack at lunch.
reefer vending machines.
vote akzle.

Akz. Often you are a lady's front bum but sometimes ... as here ... you are a bloody delight!

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'll take the cash, thanks.

Even if the boss IS paying the FBT on whatever PC bullshit they eventually decide on.

Nah all that stuff would be straight up expensed - no FBT. Surely? I cant imagine any accountant worth his or her salt allowing FBT on the yoga mats and scented candles.

Ms EJK's point about getting people up off their arses is a really good one. We had a decent uptake in sit/stand desks a couple years ago. They are brilliant but a bit spendy... having said that: its office furniture: even an expensive one is under a grand nowadays.

[Oakie]

Didn't think I'd be laughing so much when I created this thread. Thanks guys. The laughs have improved my wellness ... and there are some bloody good ideas in there too.

Do you have room anywhere for a heavy bag and a couple pairs of boxing gloves... that does wonders for my wellnesses

Probably do. I think we even have a staff member that knows a bit about boxing too

I worked for a company once that offered 3 free counselling sessions with this counselling company but it was a waste of the company's money as the counselling company were not interested in work related problems only out of work problems.

. Bad counselling company then. I've used ours and they were really good.

A couple of companies I've been involved with have run a lunchtime bootcamp/crossfit/excercise thing - where they get a personal trainer to come in at lunch, and they go out to the carpark and do various exercises.

Thought of something like that but more low impact to attract the oldies. Tai chi or summit like that. (Oldies? Jeez ... I just realised I'm probably one myself!)

We have:

Free eye tests, Annual health check if you want one - pretty basic - blood pressure, weight etc. If you can fund the eye tests (Spec Savers will do you a company deal) it's appreciated by the team, ditto flu shots.

I think baseline medical testing will be important because of the age of many of our staff.

employee wellness ......dont they get paid every week?

Yep. And if we improve their wellnessl we get more out of them for the money we have to pay them.

If this is one of your deliverables, does a bonus rely on your accomplishing this ? .

Nah. Just means the boss will keep on paying me and not trade me in on a cheaper person with different skills

*Encourage to take breaks and go for 10 min walk, or even to near by coffee shop. (we IT people hardly leave their seats, sometimes even during lunch)
*Again, encourage regular breaks if they are not doing. Make excuses or drag them out of their seats if needed. Those breaks do make a health difference.

Oakie looks down, shuffles his feet ... recognises that he has just been described. Actually while I eat at my desk, I have just started making a real effort to get out for a stroll around the block every afternoon.

Cheers for all the input. Some really good suggestions here and once again, the collective experience of KB has come to my aid. Feel free to continue with more ideas.

[husaberg]

I always find these a giggle not how much better dancers the honda plant worksers are.

[Woodman]

Work problems can actually affect employees but if you are still at school you will yet find that out.

No kidding butt head.

[TheDemonLord]

Thought of something like that but more low impact to attract the oldies. Tai chi or summit like that. (Oldies? Jeez ... I just realised I'm probably one myself!)

So no paintball/Airsoft/Brazillian Ju-jitsu then?

[Ocean1]

Nah all that stuff would be straight up expensed - no FBT. Surely? I cant imagine any accountant worth his or her salt allowing FBT on the yoga mats and scented candles.

Short answer? Depends on how lucky you feel. In theory ANY benefit simply made available, (as opposed to actually paid) to any employee, (including contractors but not including nominal partners and shareholders) legally needs to be declared.

But my main aversion to the mollycoddling bullshit is the simple fact that I work for money, and the less the boss spends on shiny PC bullshit the more he can afford to pay me and the more time I have to earn that extra. And I can assure you the extra would be far more accurately spent on shit that I want, not what some pansy arsed HR consultant thinks I want.