Healthy practices make your workplace more productive
Healthy practices make your workplace more productive?
Building a world-class culture with high performance starts with your employees’ eating habits.
Creating a high performing culture is a highly-sought after goal for companies. Companies pay billions of dollars each year for training across an array of topics in hopes of achieving this. However, before anything else, improving workplace culture begins with addressing your employees health habits.
Specifically, their eating habits. While the effects of a poor diet are highly documented as far as its effects on someone’s physical appearance and various health biomarkers. What and how your employees eat has direct implications for their productivity and the companies bottom line.
In fact, employees with unhealthy diets were 66 percent more likely to report losses in productivity. The foods your employees eat affect their cognition, energy, and stamina.
With deadlines, random admin fires to put out during the day, and never-ending feelings as if there’s not enough time–nutritional choices are made out of convenience.
Improving your employees healthy eating behaviors start with these five actions.
1. Make healthy choices easier by creating a winning environment.
It’s difficult to make healthy choices when under pressure and short on time. In that instance, people will grab what’s closest around and most convenient. Knowing this, instead of stopping employees from snacking under pressure, place better options in the office that support their well being.
Offer more nutritious options at the vending machine along with supplying ample amounts of fresh fruit. If you have a kitchen, provide equipment for people to prepare and store their own meals along with setting up breakfast bars to encourage employees to start the day with healthier options.
2. Make a commitment to regularly educating your employees.
With nutritional advice spiraling around every corner, it’s easy for people to get confused or lost on how to go about living a healthier life.
