A Healthy, Happy Workplace
How can we leave work happier and healthier than when we arrived? An impossible dream – or achievable with the right systems in place and a shift in attitude? Gillian Russell visits staff at a Glasgow-based firm to hear about the impact a four-day week has had on their work/life balance and speaks to their Operations Director Lorraine Gray about the other measures now in place to ensure a happier, healthier working environment. Denmark regularly comes out top in world happiness surveys so just what is the Danes’ attitude to work? Meik Wiking from the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen describes how they achieve a healthy work/life balance. Prof Cary Cooper from Manchester University explains why a happy, healthy workforce is important and the steps that can be taken to create a workplace wellbeing strategy. John Peebles talks about why they decided to employ a workplace therapist/lifecoach in their business while Suzanne describes the impact a 10-week paid sabbatical has on staff wellbeing. And if all of that is tricky to implement at work, you could follow the lead of the PR company which has cocktail making in the office each Friday…