{"id":132623,"date":"2019-07-03T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisw92.sg-host.com\/?p=132623"},"modified":"2024-03-29T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T05:03:06","slug":"work-environment-shapes-employee-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realbusiness.co.uk\/work-environment-shapes-employee-health","title":{"rendered":"How does the work environment shape employee health?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The physical office environment has an important role to play in affecting your employees” health and wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there’s a lot more to the work environment<\/a> than meets the eye. Let’s take a look at the factors that help shape employee health and wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is employee health and wellbeing?<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to the World Health Organisation, health is A state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a definition that takes psychological, physiological and social factors into account as well as the interactions between them. It also explicitly links health with <\/span>wellbeing<\/b><\/a>. And wellbeing, a positive rather than a neutral state, is all about how the physical, mental and social aspects of a person’s life interconnect.<\/span><\/p>\n

How the work environment influences employee health<\/b><\/h2>\n

You might say that wellbeing is how you feel about yourself and your life. So in the world of work, wellbeing is how you think about yourself in the context of your job. Businesses, therefore, tend to introduce employee health and wellbeing schemes in order to:<\/span><\/p>\n