7. Develop a flexible working environment
Stress is often originated from work-life unbalance.
There needs flexibility to maintain work-life balance. Based on what your workers value, you should create a flexible environment that allows them to rearrange their working hours and still have time for what they value. For example, he can have his job done while having left time to coach his son’s football team.
8. Don’t forget physical activities
A physical booster is connected to a morale booster.
The physical activity is proved the effective stress reliever. Still, it is not always convenient or easy for your workers to drop by a fitness centre during their lunch hour. Then why not bring fitness facilities to the office? It doesn’t mean that you have to equip your employees with a complete gym. Perhaps there is certain area in the office that your workers can stress, ride a stationary bike, practise yoga. Or simply, spare a space for them to do some exercise. Just remember that as mind and body are connected, the stress affects both.
9. Spare a space for mediation or quiet time
Arrange a particular place in the office for your employees to escape from technology and enjoy mediation or quiet time. That’s the place that they can be immersed into their thoughts, and have some minutes to regroup. Evidently, following a mediation break, employees feel more refreshed and have their energy charged up.
10. Why not allow pets in the office?
Pets are proved a wonderful stress reliever. Enabling pets at the office will encourage your workers to spare some minutes to themselves and have fun with their pet or somebody else’s.
11. Encourage team building
Workers spend lots of time with their fellow workers. Allow half an hour or an hour per week for your employees to gather in a common area, play games. That is such a great way to boost up their morale.
12. Help your employees realize how meaningful their work is
Pay alone isn’t enough. Employees want to be proud of what they do. Think about your organization’s mission and its value. Communicate the value to your manpower for them to find a reason to become good about what they do. When your employees find the meaning in what they do, their work won’t be really a chore.
13. Be careful with post-vacation
Employees may find it difficult to adjust themselves to the working space after their time-off.
While you are happy that your employees feel better from vacations, you need pay attention to their post-vacation status. When coming back to their work after time-off, workers are often forced to handle serious number of project details, sort out hundreds of emails. Just give your employees half a day to adjust again to the working place, which can effectively diminish stress levels.
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