Wellness Mental Health

“I noticed that lots of burnout, lots of people just going along to get along, folks not, and especially during the pandemic, not utilizing their PTO because Where am I going? Everything's shut down. And then if I am goin...”

“I would say don't wait for exit interviews to look for burnout... wellness is a people strategy, not a perk or a nice to have.”

“culturally, it felt like, hey, I'm here to do a certain job, but the wellbeing of my employees and the environment that they work in wasn't for them to be responsible for.”

“creating a culture of well-being is not just You know, it's not just about having Code Lavenders and yoga and pizza, and we do a lot of those things, right? But it's really that weaving it into the culture of every momen...”

“The first thing they have to do is start with building a relationship of trust where you can open the door to communicating and making it safe to talk about mental issues, mental health issues.”

“being an HR practitioner is hard. It's a really hard job and it requires a really big emotional investment where we are the corporate therapists and we're also the people problem solvers.”

“I felt a lot like who I am as a person and my identity at work became one thing. So I really took on my work self nearly all the time, even when I wasn't working. And it was a sort of one-way ticket to losing sight of my...”

“My first advice would be to get to the root of your burnout. What is the thing that's actually weighing on you?”

“It's most important to define yourself outside of work. You are not your job. You are not the problems that you solve day in and day out.”

“We've never treated it as if it was a business imperative, like it was going to really be fundamental to how we ran the firm.”

“working more hours and working harder can't necessarily relate to better.”

“If ever I feel like I'm moving into those territories [of being a therapist], then I know that's something I need to step back from because that's not something as HR people that we're trained for.”

“This is not one that I've seen many organizations do well or heard from my colleagues in my community. That they feel really supported.”

“If an organization can create that HR for HR or provide external coaching, that's what I would— the first and foremost thing I would recommend, because that is ultimately the place where that coach is there for you and y...”

“accept that the to-do list will never be done. You will always have folks who want you to do more or add more onto your kind of HR list.”

“If your wellness program doesn't include access to free supportive health coaching, I can pretty well say your wellness program isn't going to make much of a change.”

“Today, we can see that the employees value well-being as much as salary. One of the surveys that we conducted said that this is true for 88% of the people.”

“If you have something that's one size fits all, it doesn't really work anymore. You can't catch all of the intricacies of the people working at your company. Different individuals have different needs.”

“we created Wellness at Matterport, which encourages our community to actively take care of their health in a holistic way, both physically, mentally, and financially. So I wanted to create a culture of wellbeing by offer...”

“Every year it's a different need and I think that's the most successful thing that anybody can do when putting wellness programs in place, uh, be adaptable. Not one year is the same.”

“The pandemic mainstreamed mental health as a challenge because so many people were dealing with stress at a level that they'd never dealt with before. So I think it really helped normalize a lot of the conversations arou...”

“I really look at priming your mental health so that you can do your best work... it's really about managing your mental health at the company level and the individual level will put you in a position to do your best.”

“When we're feeling anxious or depressed, we're not doing our best work. We're not our best selves. We're not as engaged and productive, and the being able to be your best yourself means you're doing your best in the work...”

“Right now, keeping the focus on the employees and thinking about what they need, our focus has to be on trying to help the employees find some semblance of calm and manage whatever their situations are...”

“So wellness has been important to that priority that I mentioned, giving our employees resources and methods and tools to manage change, not only at work, but in their lives. And so we've been able to offer at the moment...”

“Financial stress impacts individuals in so many ways, and it shows in the— in sort of their work performance as well.”

“I would think of financial wellness as feeling secure about your financial situation and being able to make choices that allow you to enjoy life.”

“when you believe in yourself, it won't bother you that other people don't.”

“Positive psychology and strength-based approaches... really do share a common goal, and it's to foster like wellbeing and resilience by focusing on strengths.”

“your own grounding and mental health has obviously a significant impact on you, but it also impacts your leadership ability. It's directly correlated.”

“These aren't just cost avoidance strategies. They're driving productivity. They reduce long-term spend.. And that essentially leads to healthy employees that are leading healthier lives, et cetera.”

“employees and their managers have much more impact on their mental health than a therapist or doctor. That is, that's huge.”

“I can't tell you how many times I've reminded people, you get paid for the job done, not the specific number of hours. Because I can say with confidence, most people work more than 40 hours, especially when they're salar...”

“The Aflac Workforces Report, which is something that we've done for about the last 15 years now, we actually found that almost half of the folks we surveyed, employees that we surveyed, they don't have more than $1,000....”

“We recently led the launch of LifePoints Wellbeing for You, which is a holistic 5-pillar approach to caring for employees' wellbeing. And so those 5 pillars include physical, emotional, social, financial, and caregiver w...”

“anyone who has a balance between their mental and physical and even spiritual well-being are proven to be more engaged in their day-to-day professional responsibilities. Thus, in turn, there's a reduction in silent quitt...”

“And we call this whole concept, which many companies people call it total rewards, we call it wellbeing plan. And wellbeing plan is a very holistic approach around how you think about employees.”

“What we do in Total Rewards really has such impact on people's lives. We're contributing to their health, their wealth, their well-being.”

“We really want to shift that terminology that we're using and really focus on health and wellbeing and how can we positively impact our people.”

“We spend so much time reactively thinking about ill-being... The thing about programs like Thrive... it's proactive. It's not reactive.”

“it was at that moment that we were able to move quickly and implement a mental health wellbeing benefit called Headspace at the time... We were able to turn that around in around 60 days.”

“there's still obviously a lot of stigma around mental health and support and things like that, but this was the first time that I've seen in my career where employees were actually requesting those resources.”

“Trying to conceive is an emotional, financial, and physical rollercoaster. It's what I always say to everyone. So I always approach these conversations with care, and I share my experience right away to help them feel em...”

“To me, it all comes down to connection and inclusion, psychological safety.”

“We know that wellness encompasses emotional, well-being, as well as physical well-being, obviously, but also financial well-being. And it's about connection, and it's about experience in the workforce in terms of culture...”

“I think you can have a culture of high performance and a culture of well-being. I think that these things can mutually exist. And we're really finding more and more ways that they can.”

“our research told us that the most effective strategy to preserve kind of harmony in the workplace consists of, first, no surprise, investing in worker wellbeing, and then fostering opportunities for connection and unity...”

“organizations should show up with that empathy and an understanding of the situations and really have processes and systems to check in with affected employees.”

“HR is the first responder for change in the organization and the continual acceleration of change and transformation. Has been taking a toll on the organization's first responders.”

“We've enabled a mechanism where all of our employees actually get free mental health sessions... We've actually expanded that access to not only employees, but their immediate family, as well as people that possibly live...”

“The traditional pillars of wellbeing for employers have been physical, mental, financial, social, and professional. But what we're seeing is a shift and an increased focus on work-life balance as well.”

“The most compelling ones, in my humble opinion, incorporate the aspects of those 4 key areas I mentioned earlier: purpose, social connection, financial, mind-body health.”

“I think that financial well-being for both the individual HR person as well as the people within your organization is so important... I believe that that makes you not only in HR, but in all, in all roles, I believe that...”

“Through that experience, that's when I started to apply what I call the hospice approach when dealing with employee relations, just because there's a dynamic that happens when you take holistic care of a loved individual...”

“What I don't understand is why would we not want to understand what the employee may be going through to see if we have benefits, resources, or processes designed to support the employee in those type of situations?”

“resilience isn't just like bouncing back quickly, it's sustaining purpose through pressure.”

“Don't get so caught up in building your career that you forget to build a life that you can actually support. I've learned that real success isn't just about titles or achievements. It's about how you feel when you lay y...”

“I view burnout as it's not solved by doing more, but choosing. So I recently read the Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, and I'm sure there's lots of differing perspectives on takeaways with that book, but something that re...”

“And so I always encourage HR professionals or people managers to really start with self, understand what are their strengths, what are areas where they might feel triggered, and be able to work through those before you g...”

“I think everyone needs therapy. If you don't have a therapist, get one. The other thing, all kidding aside, I do a lot of journaling.”

“So when I think about, we have multiple different layers of support, so we have an employee, assistance program because many times employees need to be— their mental health needs to be cared for in the face of a disaster...”

“Some employees need time off, some want to like really immerse themselves in their work to maybe not concentrate on what they're experiencing. Some people need financial resources, some need mental health resources. So j...”

“Change fatigue. So, by the time we started rolling out leadership development initiatives based on what we'd heard, our employees and our leaders, they were at capacity. There had been so many shifts and transitions in t...”

“Your job doesn't define you. You're a person outside of your work.”

“Work-life balance is an unhelpful metaphor for most of us because it implies that I am essentially on some sort of tightrope and that if I can just get this equilibrium of making my family happy and my work demands that...”

“We help people who help people. We don't make widgets and there's nothing wrong with making widgets, but when we get to help people who are doing the work to help others who are really in need. And we're actually in thes...”

“what I've learned is that whole saying, like, if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life, right? And so you realize at the end of the day, the approach that I'm taking, and I recently just wrote my own mi...”

“But yeah, put your own oxygen mask on first and make sure you're taking care of your physical and mental and emotional health, because that's going to allow you to really deliver for your people broadly and for the busin...”

“HR burnout is unfortunately, I think, more and more common given, you know, shrinking team sizes and people functions paired with increasingly complex workplaces.”

“I've had a colleague refer to it as creating the space and the grace for people to safely share and be vulnerable.”