How PEOs can enhance employee well-being in the workplace

A happy employee is a productive employee, and now more than ever, it’s crucial to prioritize your employees’ mental and emotional well-being. After the pandemic, individuals in the workforce started reevaluating their jobs and identifying what they truly valued, leading to “the great resignation,” “quiet quitting,” or a total career change.

With employees now seeing the value and connection between mental and physical health and realizing both must be prioritized and nurtured, employers have begun implementing health and wellness benefits and programs. Continue reading to learn how PEOs can help your business enhance benefits and processes to support employees’ health and happiness.

PEO key benefits for employee wellness

According to a 2023 Mental Health at Work Report, 61% of people rated finances and work itself as having the most significant negative impacts on mental health. PEOs can offer many key wellness benefits for employees, ensuring that their mental and emotional health in the workplace is understood and prioritized. PEOs can help with the following:

#1: Robust benefits packages:

The best PEOs can help you improve your employees’ well-being by giving your business access to extensive benefits packages covering not only healthcare and retirement plans but also mental health services like therapy and psychiatric care.

#2: Holistic wellness activities:

The World Health Organization declared burnout an “occupational phenomenon,” claiming burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. [1] Understanding that well-being extends beyond physical health, it’s imperative to implement mental health initiatives.

Many PEOs will provide various strategies and ideas that you can use to promote mental wellness in the workplace. These may include mindfulness training, yoga, stress management workshops, and resilience building. Initiatives like these can contribute to a positive and nurturing work environment, reducing employee burnout.

Related resource:
How To Prevent Employee Burnout

#3: Support Your Team

PEOs provide expert guidance on human resources matters, helping you ensure that your business policies and procedures are fair, consistent, and compliant with labor laws. Having a PEO by your side can foster trust and a sense of employee fairness, contributing to a positive workplace culture.

If you want to maintain a mentally healthy work culture, know that our Professional Employer Resources (PER) team can help. For over 25 years, our human resources professionals have been helping businesses in Orlando and beyond with valuable resources, resolving employee-related issues, payroll management, benefits administration, workers’ compensation, and more.

As a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), we can provide solutions that prevent your team from feeling overworked and overwhelmed, contributing to a healthier and happier workplace.

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Sources:
1: WHO | Burn-out an “occupational phenomenon”: International Classification of Diseases