Mental Health and Wellness in Small Businesses: Why It Matters and How to Start
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In order to maintain productive workforce while ensuring employee morale and retention, small businesses should prioritize in health and wellness. It is difficult to prioritize mental health since they consist with limited resources, smaller teams and having highly demanding work. Dealing with these challenges is critical not only to foster a healthy work atmosphere but also in the long term.
Distinct Small Business Problems
But small businesses do tend to rely on a more close-knit workforce where employees wear many hats. Resulting in stress, overwork, and poor work-life balance. The stigma itself surrounding mental health also pushed employees to not talk about their situation. Small businesses do not have human resources departments and, as a result, often lack the skill set to implement cohesive mental health programs that keep employees connected with support systems within their jobs.
Building a Supportive Culture
Cheap Ways to Stay Healthy
Small businesses can implement budget-friendly wellness initiatives, albeit at a smaller scale. When you offer physical and mental health days off, flexible work schedules, and opportunities to work from home or remotely, your employees will be happier in their lives outside of the workplace. Access to free or low-cost wellness applications they can promote mindfulness and stress management. Local organizations or community programs can help get the mental health resources you need — for example, counseling services.
Mental health is greatly improved in workplace wellness programs that promote physical fitness, like team exercise initiatives or a walking meeting. Small businesses can also help support their teams without breaking the bank by providing access to Employee Assistance Programs or online counseling platforms.
Evaluating Impact and Current Work
To assess the success of any wellness program, it is important to solicit feedback from employees on a recurrent basis. Feedback tools like self-managed polls or informal talk sessions can assist in measuring the level of employee contentment and the attention gaps. For example, small sized businesses should measure productivity, absenteeism, or the turnover rate as determinants of the effectiveness of the program.
Summary
Supporting mental wellbeing and health is not only a billion dollar industry for small scale companies but also the right thing to do. If small businesses are able to cultivate an atmosphere of communication, utilize cost-effective methods of wellness, and be proactive in all aspects of mental health, they will positively impact employee satisfaction levels, improve productivity and lower turnover. Consequently, the employers build a strong and robust employee base that can make both self and organizational progress.
References
1. The Young Entrepreneur Council (2021). 12 Budget-Friendly ways to prioritize Employees’, Small Business Trends, online article
https://smallbiztrends.com/prioritizing-employees-mental-health/
2. Derkia Thomss(2023). Prioritizing
Mental Health: Small Business Tips & Resources. Thrvy team, Online article
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