{"id":4571,"date":"2018-02-28T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruitfulloffices.ca\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2024-03-30T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T01:16:20","slug":"101-wellness-ideas-for-vancouver-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulloffices.ca\/2018\/02\/28\/101-wellness-ideas-for-vancouver-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"101 Wellness Ideas for Vancouver Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We think it’s really important to have a workplace wellness initiative in your office. We spend most of our working lives in our offices, and it can sometimes feel like we have created a toxic work environment for ourselves. Most forward thinking businesses have considered this and created programs to care for their employees. Does your office have a workplace wellness program? Normally administered through H.R. managers, workplace wellness initiatives make working in an office just that little bit better. If you work in a Vancouver office, we are here to rev up your workplace wellness ideas with our awesome list of 101 ideas for a better workplace.<\/p>\n
We reached out to some of our clients for feedback<\/a> and asked them for their best workplace wellness initiatives. We’ve also got some great advice from the leaders in corporate wellness programs and office health initiatives. You can even download our list and take it to your next staff meeting, so that you look like the office hero when you try out some of our ideas.<\/p>\n So without further ado. Here’s the list of 101 ideas for workplace wellness programs for Vancouver offices:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n It may seem like a ‘no-brainer’, but did you know that Dave in Accounting coaches a Sunday hockey league and is looking for players? By creating a little questionnaire, you can find out who likes which sports, who wishes they had kept up running since they left school, and who is really in to healthy cooking. You can tailor your workplace ideas based on your employees sporting and wellness interests.<\/p>\n Put everybody’s name in a hat and take turns for each nominated ‘Employee wellness officer’ to implement an wellness initiative for the month. Allocate them a small budget and a reward for their hard work.<\/p>\n Include healthy recipes submissions, where to buy a healthy office lunch, like those served at Festal Paleo Cafe on Granville. Include a list of local fitness events like 5K runs, or hiking clubs, and make a big deal about employees who are cycling, running and walking to work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Promoting healthy snacking is really the best way to improve health in the office. Filling you office with chips, cake, donuts, and sugary drinks will make you sick over your working life. Reduce the temptation to snack on ‘wheat-based, high-fructose syrup junk-food and instead opt for colourful, nutritious, anti-oxidant rich fruit. Shoot us an email at\u00a0inquiry@fruitfulloffices.ca<\/em>\u00a0and we’ll send you a free trial of our quality office fruit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Encourage staff to bring health and fitness into their lives with a wall of wellness. Add healthy-eating recipes to a collage-style poster, include work-out tips, a list of local sports clubs, and have staff share their photos of their homemade meals\/sporting achievements.<\/p>\n Ask each member of staff to take turns to find an inspirational quote to add to the ‘Wellness Wall’. Make the quotes relate to your business goals and aspirations.<\/p>\n Have a whiteboard where people can write nice\/kind things about other members of staff, or where they can give thanks and express gratitude for the qualities of their colleagues and your business.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Did you know October 1st is World Vegetarian day in Canada? Why not order Vegetarian food from Nuba<\/a> at 207 W. Hastings Street.<\/p>\n \r\n \n Ask your staff to time themselves as they attempt the Grouse grind and add the photos of themselves at the top to the ‘Wellness wall’ next to their time.<\/p>\n [bctt tweet=”27% of office workers would happily sell their\u00a0passwords to outsiders.” via=”no”]<\/p>\n Open plan offices can be completely distracting. Foster a morning of silence (except for essential calls), to create an atmosphere of hard work. Celebrate the end of the silence with tea and healthy snacks like fresh cut fruit and a veggie platter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You can buy a book shelf from a local office supplies<\/a> business, and ask each member of staff to bring in a few books and write recommendations for a good read.<\/p>\n Do you know you RRSP from your TFSA? Mymoneycoach.ca<\/a> is a lower mainland business that offers free webinars covering everything from ‘retirement income’, to ‘basic household budgeting’. Teaching your employees how to save for their retirement and handle their finances is a real investment in their lives. The ‘Millennial Revolution’<\/a> is also a great resource and offers a free step-by-step workshop for online ETF investing.<\/p>\n Offer discounts to your employees for your products or services.<\/p>\n Who has time for laundry? Why not offer a free laundry service to your ’employee of the month’, or as an extended benefit for working in your awesome business. ‘The Laundry Valet’ on Davie Street<\/a> will come right to your office and accepts corporate accounts.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Get management to put down a few bucks behind a bar once a month. Chewies at 1055 W. Hastings in Vancouver<\/a> has the freshest ‘buck a shuck’ oysters and $5 ice-cold ‘happy hour’ beers.<\/p>\n Celebrate business milestones and ‘jobs well-done’ with hand-written thank you notes from senior management<\/a> to star employees.<\/p>\n Office snacks should be healthy<\/a>. Make a point of banning sodas, and discourage the eating of chips and donuts in the office. A lot of our clients receive raw cut vegetables<\/a> with their office fruit basket<\/a>.<\/p>\n1. Ask your staff how they stay fit and healthy.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Elect an employee wellness officer.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Publish a biweekly ‘Wellness Newsletter’.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
4. Get a weekly delivery of office fruit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
5. Create a wellness wall.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
6. Inspirational quote of the day.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
7. Create a whiteboard of positivity.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
8. Celebrate a random holiday.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
9. Grouse grind challenge.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
10. No-talk Tuesday morning.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
11. Create an employee library.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
12. Teach your employees ‘money-skills’.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
13. Offer a company discount.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
14. Offer free laundry service.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
15. Company sponsored ‘Happy Hour’.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
16. Hand written ‘thank you notes’ from management.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
17. Stop offering low-quality office snacks.<\/strong><\/h3>\n