Singapore group starts creating pioneering benchmark for workplace well-being

The necessity of selling workplace well-being is turning into globally acknowledged, and the Singapore group Workwell Leaders is about to make a singular contribution to the trigger.

The organisation is growing a set of greatest practices for worker well-being that may kind a pioneering benchmark for all of Singapore, based on a report in The Straits Times. These greatest practices would additionally lead to larger worth for any enterprise.

Speaking to the publication, WWL Chairwoman Anthea Ong mentioned that the benchmark set of greatest practices was prone to be adopted first by the bigger corporations after which by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

“Whether it’s peer assist, coaching assets, coaching for mental-health first assist, even creating peer assist teams that additionally contain among the staff of the companions, that’s a chance that we haven’t actually leveraged to get the bigger organisations to deliver (SMEs) alongside,” she mentioned.

Its mission and imaginative and prescient targeted on constructing “mentally wholesome workplaces”, the WWL works by organisational leaderships, seeing it as “a elementary accountability for themselves and their work communities”.

Ong mentioned to ST that the benchmark below improvement can be the primary of its variety on the planet. She added that the WWL had focused an adoption charge of 25 per cent throughout the first three years of the launch of the workplace well-being benchmark in Singapore.

In order to attain its targets, a 12-member WWL work group is structuring a examine that may assist collate greatest practices. The framework covers a spread of workplace features, akin to adjustments in workplace behaviours; impression of these adjustments on employees; workload; work design; workforce collaboration; and a way of belonging. The benchmark goals to quantify how employee well-being pertains to productiveness, attrition, and innovation.

By October 2024, the examine parameters are anticipated to be finalised, and by early 2025, the examine outcomes are anticipated to be printed.