Holistic Workplace Wellness

Despite their popularity, open-plan offices (OPOs) have several downsides. Not only can they stifle innovation, but they can also be emotionally taxing. This post describes the psychological toll that OPOs can take on employees and explains how re-imagining the purpose of the office as a space for collaboration can help employers persuade remote-only workers to come back into the office.

Chronic work-related stress has depleted employees’ energy reserves along with their ability to feel positively towards their workplaces. As a result, they are unhappy and underperforming. To help employers fix this problem, this post describes six of the most common causes of workplace burnout and provides suggestions for how to address them.

Employers offer education benefits to help their employees continue to learn and acquire new skills in an increasingly competitive and degree-demanding job market. Despite the multitude of ways in which education can benefit employees, many of the education benefits provided by businesses are not being used. To help companies rectify this problem, this post identifies four key reasons why these benefits often go underutilized and describes two steps that employers can take to improve their education initiatives going forward.

LGBTQI+ workers deal with an overwhelming set of obstacles, harms, and inequities in the workplace. This post provides employers with five actions they can take to provide members of the LGBTQI+ community with the work environment and career opportunities that they deserve.

Psychologists and computer scientists have been working together to produce conversation artificial intelligence that play some of the therapeutic conversational roles that are typically saved for human psychotherapists (e.g., offering empathic responses and providing instructions on how to apply well-tested treatments like cognitive behavioral therapy). This post examines the benefits and limitations of this technology along with what it may look like in the years to come.

Philosophers have been studying well-being for thousands of years. Despite this, many wellness-focused employers are unaware of what philosophers have to say about what it is to be well. Learn more about the work that philosophers of wellness have done and ways in which philosophical insights about well-being should alter employers’ approaches to workplace wellness.

By eliminating the need to self-monitor one’s stress levels, providing direct suggestions on how to de-stress, and even automatically activating stress reducing changes in one’s environment, emerging anti-stress technologies stand to take out the stress from stress management and make staying calm easier than ever.