This article was brought to our attention by GCP’s co-founder, Ed Shulkin (thank you Ed!). It’s enlightening and heartening to know that there are companies out there that, like GCP, are striving for a complete balance of work-life. This article outlines the importance of promoting 5 factors of well-being into the workplace lives: career, social, financial, physical and community well-being. BUT, the true gems of this article are in the depth of the interviews and stories of how these factors are integrated into the cultures of companies like Zappos.
We are introduced to the concept of empowering workers’ real personalities to come forward, which allows hidden special talents to shine through, thereby creating a full-on well-centric workplace culture. Sounds like simple and basic HR-speak? Not if your one of these companies doing it right…it’s brilliant and often overlooked. I hope this article inspires you to adopt a well-being workplace philosophy…summarizing won’t do it justice, read on:
Creating a culture of well-being by Return On Performance Magazine(ROP).