The Current State and Future of Employee Well-Being Programs 2019: Heighten the employee experience by improving the well-being of the workforce

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RESEARCH:

Employee well-being programs have become the norm

Employee well-being programs are pervasive, with 87% of HR professionals saying their organizations offer programs or benefits that promote employee well-being.

There are diverse well-being program elements and offerings

We inquired about five areas of employee well-being programs – physical, environmental, mental/emotional, financial, and social. As we noted above, on average, organizations view themselves best at promoting physical well-being and worst at promoting social well-being. In this section, we see the wide assortment of programs and initiatives being used to improve employee well-being.

The perceived impact of well-being programs

Although recruiters can use employee well-being programs to attract prospective employees and burnish the employer brand, such efforts appear to have more of an effect on engaging and retaining current employees In fact, most responding HR professionals (63%) agree or strongly agree that employee well-being programs drive greater employee engagement, where 46% think well-being programs help their organizations recruit skilled employees. Most (57%) participants also agree that well-being programs contribute to retention.