MetLife’s 21st annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study found a connection between employee health and caring employers. Eighty percent of employees who feel cared for at work describe themselves as holistically healthy compared with 40 percent who feel an absence of care from their employer. Fifty-eight percent of employees overall feel cared for when working.
Missy Plohr-Memming suggests five strategies employers can use to reverse the declines in holistic health by demonstrating they care:
- Professional growth and training
- Purposeful work
- Social and supportive culture
- Flexibility and work/life balance
- Wellness programs and benefits
Source: Human Resource Executive, March 20, 2023. Link. To really get care right, employers must ensure they are not only prioritizing the demonstration of care generally but also offering solutions that reflect the varying needs of all their employees, ensuring they feel truly seen as individuals.
This means not applying a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather demonstrating care in a way that specifically meets employees’ individual needs.
Also see: Combat boorish behavior in the workplace, worklife, March 21, 2023. Link. From cringeworthy emails to boardroom meltdowns and disrespectful bosses, incivility threatens to harm business while ensuring that employees take the first opportunity to exit.
Also see: A successful workplace culture starts with developing soft skills across the organization, Training, March 14, 2023. Link.
People don’t just leave companies. They leave leaders and the cultures they create.”
Image credit: Organizational Culture Framework, Spencer Stuart. Link. Stuart’s framework for assessing culture is rooted in the insight that each organization and each individual must address the inherent tension between two critical dimensions of organizational dynamics: attitude towards people and attitude towards change