Four tips for better project collaboration between wellness and digital-development departments

The connection between an organization’s workplace wellness efforts and its IT and digital-development departments might not be the first essential partnership you think of, but it’s much more important than it seems at first glance. This is especially true now, as the workforce returns to the office.

Technology is ubiquitous in the workplace in large and small ways, so it’s not surprising that it can be a stressor when it doesn’t work correctly. Because workplace well-being is frequently about alleviating stress, it stands to reason that wellness and IT teams are interdependent.

A recent Salesforce report assessed technology’s impact on employee engagement after surveying 3,000 office workers and 75 IT leaders in the Asian Pacific region. The report found that employees waste nearly an hour every day due to outdated and inefficient workplace technologies. And when asked which issues negatively affect their engagement, the top two worker complaints were technology failure (60%) and poor tech quality (51%).   

How can wellness and IT partners collaborate at their best to reach their goals? Here are four tips to help smooth projects from the start and result in happier, more engaged employees.