How preventative healthcare can impact employee wellbeing & productivity
How preventative healthcare can impact employee wellbeing & productivity
Written by: Paula Antalffy | 3-4 minute read
All businesses are aware of the costs of poor physical and mental health on their bottom line: In 2021/22 alone, 30.8 million working days were lost due to work-related ill health, which includes stress, anxiety, depression and musculoskeletal disorders.
Not only that, according to mental health research by Deloitte, poor mental health costs employers in the UK up to £56 billion a year, whilst think tank RAND Europe estimates that the UK economy loses up to £40 billion a year due to poor sleeping habits.
These numbers may be alarming, but to employers who are committed to being proactive about wellbeing, they present a unique opportunity to provide an exceptional preventative health experience resulting in improved employee satisfaction, retention and productivity.
Self-led, tech enabled
Whilst availability of preventative health resources are a great starting point, having employees engage with these resources is usually where the challenge lies.
Helping employees to proactively engage in their own daily preventative health efforts means providing them with not just the means, but also structure in the form of motivation and accountability, support to enable them to take daily positive action towards better health, and a personalised approach that suits the individual.
This is the premise behind MyDay’s engaging and inspiring wellbeing app: Personalised wellbeing, supporting a self-led preventative health journey with innovative tech, whilst connecting people to each other and to the climate agenda.
Personalised wellbeing
Zainab in marketing loves her health tracker watch, and is always eager to engage in wellbeing tools. For her, the MyDay app is a natural progression that integrates seamlessly with her existing devices, and that brings together all of her wellbeing data in one place. She loves that she can access her payslips and leave calendar in the same place that she connects with her colleagues and tracks her daily wellbeing, and the big bonus is that she can turn all of those daily steps she’s been tracking into Planet Points.
Richard in accounts isn’t much of a tech fan, but he does carry his iPhone wherever he goes. He was surprised that by syncing the MyDay app to his ios Health app, he could see insights about his daily lunchtime walk around the park, and that he was racking up about 8000 steps per day. For him, the MyDay app is a handy way to connect with his team and reward people with Kudos, and he quite enjoys the satisfaction of collecting Planet Points just by doing the same walking routine he’s been doing for years. He’s also become a big fan of the clinically moderated support groups he’s joined anonymously in the MyDay app, helping him to access a community and resources to learn more about health conditions that bother him.
World Class Wellbeing
The more useful and engaging a business’ wellbeing efforts are, the more employees are likely to use the support and resources available to them, and the more the overall wellbeing of the organisation will improve. By integrating wellbeing with community, recognition, internal support structures, daily admin tasks and climate action, the MyDay app becomes an indispensable and seamless part of everyday life that employees can’t help but engage with.
With every employee logging into the app and using it in a way that suits their work and their lifestyle, aggregated insights into wellbeing become so much more meaningful. From monitoring leave days and overtime, to gauging the impact of daily positive habits on productivity, decision-makers can use this hard data to spot trends, inform better people decisions, and continue to strive for an exceptional preventative health experience for their employees.
If you would like to learn more about MyDay and how we can deliver your wellness and ESG initiatives, reach out to schedule time for a call.
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