Good health and well-being have been all the buss for the past few years, as the world shifted its focus from the just living to really taking care of oneself. Over the year’s mental health and overall healthy living has gotten prominence as the spot light hit the flip side of neglect. Everyone struggles with something related to health, and it becomes harder to keep up when life and work commitments take over. So, it becomes a part of the organisation’s responsibility to take care of its employees to make sure their contribution comes from a healthy mind and body. Not just because it will affect your organisations progress, but because you owe a part of what you call a corporation to their efforts. So how does HR tech become a part of this? Tech of course has synchronised way ahead of time to accommodate this even before anyone felt its gravity. The HRIS world aligned its features to shift focus to the elephant in the room. Answer; yes. It might not seem that way, but here’s a run-down on the latest wellness features that HR platforms have incorporated to leverage the wellness game.
Self-care reminders
Whether it’s a desk job, home-based or constant travel kind of agreement that an employee has with the organisation, it’s never an easy process. Quite often many tend to get lost in the flow of work and forget to take a breather to refresh their mind and body. At times like this, is when the HRIS kicks into the place. Running in the background, your HR software can send out reminders by monitoring your screen time. A quick break to walk around, to have a sip of water or to just look away from the lit-up screen that everyone has their eyes on. It doesn’t just stop there, being mobile friendly, HR platforms are now programed to send out alerts and notification about sleep, exercise and healthy eating. Acting as a personal health and wellness prompter, it reminds employees that taking care of their health is as important as everything else that they have time allocated for. To those that are still new to this not so new way of living, this becomes an effective tool to ease their way in. HR software have traveled beyond the typical timesheets and leave management to encapsulate the changing requirements of employee well-being. In this case, a pursuit towards improving morale and preventing burnouts.
Incentives for wellness
Wellness cannot be limited to just a reminder or a notification. After all, that can always be muted to accommodate other priorities that may need attention beyond a moment’s break. Traveling beyond the tap on the shoulder, HR platforms support wellness incentive that are provided by the organisation. Just like it tracks performance goals, absences and trainings, it is equipped to track goals set by a wellness program. So, if your weakness is forgetting to take a break, or drinking enough water or even having a healthy meal. Your HR software will be able to help you keep a track of the progress from the beginning. Breaking away from the typical daily tasks that were expected of an HRIS, it reached further to bring you closer to meeting your wellness goals, as much as you reach your performance KPIs. Going as far as offering rewards to those goals you’ve met, tracking fluctuations and prompting any downfalls overtime to keep you on track.
Access to the perks
Having wellness programs integrated often means that your organisation will do its part in encouraging its employees to incorporate good habits to their daily routine. Often by proving discounts and benefits, all in the hopes of building a healthier workforce. These would be wasted if no one knows about them or uses them. This is where HRIS steps in and takes its to the employees prompting them about the benefits that they have been offered. While tracking their wellness journey, it allows employees to make use of the gym memberships, healthy food options, or fitness products that are offered by the organisation. Skipping over limitation that may keep them from experiencing the full effect of self-care.
Work-life balance was a term that was once overused by every organisation, although most often the reality was that it was just limited to a mere word. The future of work takes a different approach, especially with technology coming into the picture, things are often always tracked and monitored in real time. Avoiding it from being just a one-time thing that comes to a bitter end. Good health and wellness are important parts of life, that were often overlooked because of the competitiveness and fast pace of the developing world. However, the world’s fast pace has managed to merge itself with technology and redefine life experiences that incorporate self-care. Going along with that, HR software have evolved further from just HR functionalities to incorporate the true definition of Human Resources. Which includes taking care of the workforce as much as managing them. So, as you move ahead towards the future of work, consider tools that sync with the changing dynamics of a fast track world.
