Wellbeing and its Benefits in the Workplace

RESEARCH ON
WELLBEING

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOPIC..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

TOPIC
Well-being can benefit professionals in the workplace and organisations
INTRODUCTION
Wellbeing can be defied as state of being comfortable, healthy and happy. Wellbeing of
an individual is extremely important to be focused upon as it helps in leading a high- quality
healthy lifestyle (Lelliott and et. al., 2008). Wellbeing help in ensuring that an individual is
mentally and physically healthy. Wellbeing can help an organization in ensuring that their
employees are physically and mentally healthy and are enjoying their job which eventually help
in enhancement of efficiency at workplace. This essay will lay emphasis upon importance of
wellbeing and ways in which it can benefit professionals in the workplace and organisations.
MAIN BODY
Overview of wellbeing and its importance
Wellness or wellbeing is one of the most important and fundamental factors of health that
helps an individual to enhance and maintain their high quality of life and provide them strength
and motivation so that they can overcome any kind of difficulties and achieve what they want in
life. Wellbeing plays a vital and important role within an individual’s life. Personal wellbeing of
a person is directly related to their learning capacity. It can help a person in resolving different
range of learning problem, mental health related problems which eventually would have helped
in develop interest of individual in learning. It further helps a person in enhancing their social
life, participate in group or social activities actively. According to Hodgins, Fleming and
Griffiths, (2016) if a person focuses upon remaining healthy and maintaining their wellbeing
then it can help them in tackling with stress, anxiety, emotional trauma etc.
Wellbeing importance at workplace
At workplace wellbeing plays a vital and important role. First and the foremost thing, it
helps in maintaining a positive working environment and help employees in working actively. It
is important for organizations to focus upon maintaining wellbeing of employees because it
directly helps in enhancing overall performance of employees, efforts put by employees in
achieving targeted goas and objectives also increases. Wellbeing at workplace is more than just
ill- health of employees, it is about optimizing overall health of employees both physically and
mentally. Some of the most important factors due to which wellbeing at workplace becomes
important are: it helps in reducing absenteeism and overall healthcare coast of employees. In
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