From free healthy meals and an equipped gym, through a rewarding financial and moral rewards package, and sessions dedicated to meditation and psychotherapy, to offices suitable not only for the human race, but also for pets that their owner cannot leave at home, the concept of well-being at work takes different forms around the world, evolving with the progress of time and its changes since The trip with the Italian doctor Bernardino Ramazzini, who is said to be the first to introduce the concept of well-being at work in the seventeenth century through his book “diseases of workers”, which is one of the first books that gave the topic of occupational diseases a space of attention. 

From that moment until today, many changes have occurred in the concept of” well-being " in general in the context of work environments or outside, but what is certain is that many studies have shown that the lack of well-being at work, in various forms, led to a decrease in employee loyalty, and an increase in absenteeism rates, which has had obvious effects on the level of Productivity. 

The truth is, when we look at it from a time point of view, we find that employees spend most of their time inside the workplace or for work if they work remotely, so as an owner of an enterprise or company, you cannot wait for that scene in which you see an employee burning stages for you and asserting with all enthusiasm, passion and love, unless accompanied by an environment that gives him his rights and provides him with support And motivation is enough, and if he is forced to be prejudiced against himself, it will not last long, because in the end no candle can rise up in the face of darkness forever, it must be overcome by blackness.

Perhaps many employees today do not demand a luxurious arcade like the one found at Google, for example, or a virtual environment full of entertaining challenges among employees like those made by Salesforce, and maybe he does not care much whether he eats free meals at his desk or not, instead of all of that, they demand an atmosphere of appreciation and motivation that guarantees them their rights and Development and improvement of themselves and their organizations, an atmosphere in which the employee does not feel sad and frustrated because of the underestimation of his work or inequality between him and his peers or assigning him more than he can stand, an atmosphere in short, does not make him wake up every morning with a sigh that hides behind a lot of suffering in the pursuit of livelihood. 

Therefore, well-being at work has become of interest to many companies around the world, because they have begun to approach this issue from a perspective that goes beyond “well-being”, as it is ultimately about achieving interests and goals, and in business language this is not important, but the only thing that matters. 

Today there are a number of international organizations such as the Global Center for healthy work environments GCHW, which sets a set of motivational awards for organizations that put well-being and health as their priority, and also there is the American Gallup Foundation, which for almost two decades has been awarding an award in this scope called the exceptional work environment Exceptional Workplace Award, a prestigious award dedicated to The required criteria set by the largest comprehensive study ever conducted on work environments, which includes the analysis of more than 2.7 million workers belonging to more than 100 thousand teams around the world.

And here comes to mind a set of questions: Who is the market to withstand the pressure of work as the main advantage for which one candidate is offered and another is excluded Yes, we all know that there is no work without responsibilities, and it is quite natural that these responsibilities carry with them some kind of pressure, but exactly what kind of pressure should an employee bear Those that are generated by the nature of the work itself or the pressures that the employer creates himself Perhaps the most important question is: does work stress carry a purely individual responsibility or a task whose impact on health and psyche is reduced by cooperation and support 

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Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446786/

https://www.globalhealthyworkplace.org/about/

https://www.salesforce.com/blog/how-we-encourage-wellbeing-at-salesforce/

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/329768/gallup-exceptional-workplace-awards.aspx