Across the globe, companies are improving their employee satisfaction levels and their desirability as an employer by offering yoga and meditation sessions at work.
Yoga is an ancient Buddhist practice that has been around for years and has long been popular in the Western world as a way of strengthening the body and relaxing the mind. Yoga in the workplace is supported by mounting evidence that workplace health promotion can result in cost savings, better productivity, and improved employee engagement.
Combat Stressed
In any work environment, employees who are experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety are much less likely to work productively and achieve better results than those who are calm and collected. In many workplace environments, the tasks of the day can add up and become bigger stressors than they need to be. Offering corporate yoga in the workplace allows employees to retreat to a calm and quiet place to collect their thoughts and get back in control, resulting in them returning to work feeling more relaxed, motivated and focused.
Pain Relief
Many employees work in office jobs, and even those working in more dynamic positions often find themselves sat at their desk for long periods of time working on paperwork or replying to emails, for example. Offering yoga in the workplace can help employees to deal with the physical aches and pains that come with working in an office for eight hours per day, and can also help them to improve their posture so they can avoid further pain and discomfort in the future. With less physical discomfort to distract them, employees will be happier at work and better able to focus on the tasks ahead.
Improve Customer Relations
Yoga has an immense number of benefits for your mental and physical health, therefore offering yoga classes to your employees will be influential in helping them to improve themselves. With this, employees will be happier in both their personal and professional lives, leading to less stress and a happier, more relaxed outlook. In turn, this will lead to genuinely better customer services and encourage employees to improve their relationships with clients.
Showing Your Appreciation
One of the best ways to improve employee satisfaction in the workplace is to simply show your appreciation more often and give back to your employees whenever you can. Since your employees are at the very heart of your company, you would be unable to reach any success without them and it’s important to keep this in mind in your interactions with the people who work for you. Providing workplace yoga and even yoga clothes, meditation and similar activities to improve and enhance employee health and wellbeing is a great way to show your employees how much you appreciate all their hard work.
Yoga in the workplace might not be commonplace just yet, but more and more big companies around the globe are realizing the benefits of yoga and meditation in a corporate setting. Participating in yoga at work can be a great way to improve employee satisfaction.
From: IBM Developer Works