How do you invest in the wellness of your employees?
Members share ways they support employees’ health
“We supply the office with healthy snacks: fruit, veggies and nuts. Each employee is given a gym membership and a health spending account for massages, naturopaths or however they choose to use it. We also make sure the office allows for some fun. We have lunch and movie days, early dismissal for long weekends and recently we took our staff to see Cher!” — Gay Andrews, executive vicepresident and COO of Caplink Financial Corporation — caplink.ca “Good people are hard to find. To keep them happy, we pride ourselves on our core principles: respect, open communication and teamwork. Keep people learning, give them work-life balance, and make them feel valued.” — Margarita de Guzman, principal archaeologist at Circle CRM Group Inc. — circleconsulting.ca “We provide a health stipend of varying value based on our hierarchy, health and wellness tips, health website links to educate, an office gym, and a catered food court with healthy food, green juice etc.” — Selva J, owner of Bodhi Solutions — bodhisolutions.ca “We provide yoga sessions twice a week, a massage therapist monthly and have an in-house chef to make healthy lunches for clients and staff! We grow vegetables on our roof garden, too.” — Shafraaz Kaba, partner at Manasc Isaac Architects — manascisaac.com “As a company we are recognizing that the culture of an enterprise is equally important to its strategic imperative and operational approach. By choosing to invest time and effort into creating a culture that appreciates flexibility and authenticity, we show employees how much they are valued. By investing in health and fitness benefits, employees know their mental and physical wellbeing in their professional and personal life matters.” — Heather Layton, founder of Livit — livitfit.ca “I let them maintain a work-life balance, offer a gym membership, and keep the environment positive.” — Kevin MacDonald, business consultant and owner of PU Technologies Inc — putechnologies.tk “Be a leader who ensures that staff health and wellness initiatives are built into an organization’s policies and procedures.” — Robert Manolson, creator of and facilitator at Powerful Play Experiences — powerfulplayexperiences.ca “Two of the biggest stumbling blocks to employee wellness that people face are dealing with and communicating with co-workers and bouncing back from mistakes. As a motivational speaker, I invest in employee wellness by helping people see and get past these stumbling blocks so they can be happy, motivated and productive at work.” — Barbara May, founder of Stumbling Blocks at Work — stumblingblocksatwork.com “We provide an on-site gym or subsidized membership to a gym, a weekly on-site (insurance-covered) masseuse, a health spending account added to your benefits package, a social committee that may be funded by the company to help with team bbq; family picnics; movie nights; etc…. Incorporate fun into team building activities and you’ll have healthy, happy and engaged team members.” — Ashif Mawji, CEO of NPO Zero — npozero.com “If all you’re focused on is the bottom line, you’ll never surpass your basic needs. Let your employees find balance between all their needs: social, personal, fun, achievement and others. When you can achieve this balance, your employees will exceed your expectations.” — Deirdre St. Luke, owner of Deirdre St-Luke — dstluke.com