work life balance — Office Worker Health

Employee wellness is evolving within a rapidly changing work environment. Companies are now understanding that to be effective, wellness needs to be used as a business strategy, which means moving past the traditional concept of health and wellness in the workplace as a mainly physical approach and focusing, instead, on the concept of developing the whole person. Using corporate wellness as a business strategy not only creates a competitive advantage for your business, but also implements evidence-based corporate wellness programming alongside workforce professional and personal development. At its core, this business strategy looks at what people factors are statistically connected to better business results, rather than focusing solely on the traditional management of risk factors (Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, Nutrition, Physical Activity) and claims of health care reductions.

Office Wellbeing, Workplace Wellness, Entrepreneur HealthBrian4 April 2018workplace wellness, work life balance, health and wellness program, health and wellness, wellness strategy, employee wellness, workplace wellbeing, wellness at work, business strategyComment

The Future of Work: Active Meetings

Meetings are the backbone of the working day for many professions. I can summarise the majority of the meetings I’ve attended as follows:

Short meetings
Long meetings
Productive meetings
Complete waste of my time meetings

What do all the above meetings have in common?

I was sitting on my backside for all of them. That is something I believe is worth changing.

Office Wellbeing, Office Health, Workplace WellnessBrian14 March 2018active office, active meeting, workplace wellbeing day 2018, workplace wellbeing day, workwell18, work life balance, workplace wellness, work health, office wellbeing, office exerciseComment

Ireland’s Workplace Wellbeing Day 2018

Friday April 13th 2018 is Ireland's fourth National Workplace Wellbeing Day and is now firmly established as the biggest celebration of workplace wellbeing in the Irish Calendar. I’ve written previously about workplace wellness promotion and about how both employers and employees can play their part in supporting a positive work environment so I’m delighted to help spread the word about this event as ultimately this day represents everything that Office Worker Health is about:

“Promoting health and wellbeing to the working population”

Workplace Wellness, Office Wellbeing, Office HealthBrian7 March 2018workwell18, workplace wellness, workplace wellbeing day, workplace wellbeing day 2018, Ireland's national workplace wellbeing day, work life balanceComment

Controlling Stress Can Help You Lose Weight

Uncontrolled stress can sabotage any weight loss plan. As a nurse practitioner and health coach, I see many clients who list weight loss as their main wellness goal. Often they tell me they are not losing weight even though they have changed their diet and started working out. I always ask about their stress levels, and most of them will indicate it is “moderate” to “very high.” I usually focus on ways to decrease their stress levels first, then diet and exercise.

Exercise and Nutrition, Office Health, Stress Management, Workplace WellnessBrian31 January 2018office stress, stress management, stress control, office health, workplace wellness, work life balance, health and wellness, health and wellbeing, office wellbeingComment

Why I'll Be Watching Operation Transformation

Anything that encourages exercise, eating well and community is to be welcomed. No matter what your level of fitness, there’s something everyone can take away from Operation Transformation.

For anyone unfamiliar with the show, Operation Transformation is a health and fitness programme airing on Irish TV and Radio that is comparable to ‘The Biggest Loser’ programme popular in other parts of the world.

Weight Control, Outdoor Exercise, New Year ResolutionBrian10 January 2018operation transformation, exercise, exercise goals, outdoor exercise, outdoor lifestyle, work life balance, nutrition, get outside, get outdoors, great outdoors, walking, running, high intensity interval trainingComment

A Quick Guide to Staying Healthy at Work

There isn’t one solution to staying healthy, but, rather a combination of things -- including keeping active and eating wholesome, good-for-you foods. While eating healthy and moving more might sound too difficult to do against a demanding work schedule, there are a few quick tips you can keep in mind to help you conquer both – regardless of work schedule.

Health Accountability, Office Health, Workplace WellnessBrian29 November 2017health tips, health and wellbeing, workplace wellness, work health, work life balance, office habits, office nutrition, office exercise, office hydrationComment

Why Every Employee Should Have a Wellness Vision

Vision-building has been a corporate practice for decades. For business experts, having a clear, effective corporate vision is the starting place for success. Not having a vision leads to lack of focus, clarity and performance. So if visions do great things for corporations, how can they work for people?

Coaching Program, Health Accountability, Office Wellbeing, Workplace WellnessBrian22 November 2017wellness vision, workplace wellness, work life balance, health and wellbeing, corporate health, health and wellness, health and wellness program, healthy program Comment

Gym of 2020 – Working Out at the Office

If you haven’t heard, “Sitting Disease” is the new smoking and its killing Americans. With the vast majority of hours being racked up in the office, individuals now more than ever, need to find ways to be physically active at their desk. So what’s the latest in fitness technology and products? Here are a few creative options:

Office Furniture that doubles as Gym Equipment

Treadmill desks have been around for a while and now the data is showing how effective they really are.

Entrepreneur Health, Gym Workout, Office Health, Office WellbeingBrian8 November 2017gym of 2020, health and wellness program, office health, workplace wellness, work life balance, work healthComment

Slow Down to Speed Up

Most of us feel like we are at the mercy of our schedules, our bosses’ expectations AND our own. We feel pressured to stay head’s down in our cubicles, in front of our computers all day. Somehow meetings get placed on our schedule—last minute. We deal with emergencies from clients, co-workers as well as from management. Thus, we feel like we are putting out fires with no time to actually get proactive work done. At the end of the day, we feel exhausted and stressed with all that is left on our plate. So, we go back to our computers and work after the kids are in bed or lay awake worrying about all that needs to get done tomorrow.

Mindfulness, Mental Health, Office Health, Stress ManagementBrian20 September 2017mindfulness, healthy mind, office mindfulness, healthy mindset, stress, office habits, workplace wellness, work life balanceComment

How to Survive Christmas Party Season

It’s that time of year again and it appears the recession is well and truly over as the diaries fill up with parties and events over the next month just like they used to during the good old days. Fantastic news for the economy in general but not such good news for your liver or your energy levels. Christmas Day and the days around it are often a write off for many of us with food, booze and powerful bouts of laziness top of the agenda for the vast majority. Not a whole lot wrong with that, it is the festive season after all. What if we took our foot off the gas just a little bit in the run up to it though? Do you think that might help?

Christmas Party, Exercise and Nutrition, Health Accountability, Office PartyBrian30 November 2016Christmas, xmas party, christmas party, festive season, office party, party season, xmas party season, christmas party season, finger food, office wellbeing, work health, work life balance Comments