Discover the secret to maintaining a joyful and robust life in the workplace. Uncover five transformative strategies that can help you navigate the challenges of work-life balance, ensuring your happiness and health remain uncompromised.
Benefits of a Balanced Workplace
Healthy, happy employees are more engaged and committed to the company mission
- Social bonds have significant health and stress-reduction benefits
- Employees who strike up friendships, help their colleagues, and organize office socials are more likely to get a promotion within two years
Wag Away Stress
The company of a pet has been shown to have health benefits including reducing blood pressure and stress-benefits that some employers are allowing employees to extend to their workday
- Employees who take their dogs to work had higher job satisfaction and less stress than their peers without dogs
Follow Your Passion
A growing number of companies encourage their staff to volunteer on the clock
- Doing something altruistic can give a greater sense of meaning to your workweek
- It often translates to greater productivity, too
- Ask if your workplace has a program for volunteering or matching employee contributions
Clear Your Mind
Companies are beginning to offer programs to help their employees access the stillness within
- Encouraging meditation and mindfulness in the office gives everyone more mental clarity
- It is a universal training that allows each employee to have greater access to the space we need to make clear, conscious decisions about our work and our lives
Be a Standup Employee
With a stream of new studies highlighting the health risks of sitting for long periods (sitting more than six hours a day may more than double your risk of diabetes and heart disease), standing and walking desks are the new must-have office perk.
Take Recess
Keen, a Portland, Oregon-based company instituted a 10- to 15-minute recess every day for its 160 employees three years ago.
- “It helps with relationships, productivity, and creativity,” says Linda Balfour, a manager on the team that developed the program. “When you play together, you connect on another level.”
- Play breaks make you more efficient
