Employee wellness pivotal to their performance

Coca-Cola is making a significant investment in encouraging its employees to look after themselves, believing that healthier employees are more productive. The company has made wellbeing an integral part of its culture; its leadership is supporting this initiative so that it permeates through the company culture on every level.

“We feature active, healthy living and employee wellbeing as part of what we call our CocaCola Ambassador programme. We encourage our employees to be ambassadors for our products and our company,” says Ruwayne Kock, talent and development manager, Coca-Cola South Africa.

“Companies can make the mistake of missing opportunities to reinforce the company’s culture, its organisational or business goals and values. We try hard to keep healthy, active lifestyles top of mind. To remind our employees of the importance of active healthy lives, we have set up permanent structures and reminders through the use of ambient media, such as the ‘Red Mile’ in our offices — a walking path that courses throughout our campus.

“Accessibility and affordability are key to a healthy lifestyle and we regularly evaluate how to invest in employee wellbeing, and in addition to offering comprehensive and affordable medical aid options, we look for practical and inexpensive ways to promote healthy living including meal choices in our canteen and on-site health screening.

“Coca-Cola South Africa also hosts Discovery Wellness Days at our office, a health trend that has been adopted by many companies.” —