TIPS ON TRAVELLER WELLBEING

• Raise awareness. Start talking about the challenges and potential issues openly with travellers and encourage them to manage their own wellbeing and healthy routines whilst on trips. Having honest conversations

and dialogue with travellers is essential.

• Draw up a wellbeing plan. The idea is to

bring HR, procurement, buyers and managers together around a single source of truth that aligns company and wellbeing objectives. Clearly articulated, they will give direction as to what you want to achieve.

• Build flexible travel plans. This can include levels of downtime, either during trips or on people’s return, plus details of rest days, training, classes of travel, even sourcing hotels with fitness facilities and healthier eating. Recognise what you can achieve.

• Measure everything. If you are implementing a wellbeing policy you need to know whether the changes you put in place will actually make a difference. You also need a baseline set of parameters before

you start up any policy.

• Start small. Creating an all-singing,

all-dancing programme can cause headaches. Pick a handful of changes you would like to implement when it comes to

wellness and see how things improve.