Why workers need more than wellness benefits and initiatives
Perks and programs are great, but employees want leaders who express genuine care, compassion and appreciation for their labor.
It seems simple enough. To help workers care for their well-being, provide them with well-being benefits, right?
Not exactly. Workplace well-being benefit packages alone are not enough to help workers care for their well-being, according to a new joint study by The Wellbeing Lab and George Mason University’s Center for the Advancement of Wellbeing. What workers need most right now is care and compassion from their leaders.
People who feel that they could trust their leaders to make sensible decisions about issues that impact their future are three times more likely to feel positive about returning to work. This perhaps explains why leaders like Jane Fraser, president of Citi and CEO of global consumer banking, made Citi’s reentry priority abundantly clear when she wrote on LinkedIn:
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