1. Allow for employees’ emails to be disabled during out-of-office periods such as vacation, illness, extended conferences, etc. Daimler and Thrive Global have already blazed this trail.
  2. Institute themed days and provide resources. For example, how about Massage Monday? Have a professional masseuse onsite from 8am to 5pm to provide 5-10 minute chair massages on a rolling basis. Or what about movement Monday, wellness Wednesday, or Fun Friday?
  3. Have healthy snacks available daily in break areas, meeting rooms, and all areas where employees congregate. Deloitte University nails this.
  4. On Friday, have a mandatory shut-down of business at 5pm to encourage employees to leave work and go home (i. e., automatic lights out, automatic computer lock-out, etc.).
  5. Gift to employees for their birthday a paid Monday or Friday off as part of a 3-day weekend that’s closest to their actual birthday.
  6. Support walk-and-talk meetings outdoors on campus grounds to unchain employees from their desks. Movement, sunshine, and fresh air benefit health and also stimulate productivity and creativity. Shout out to Bristol-Myers Squibb offices in Belgium and Netherlands.
  7. Organize and put on a talent show to celebrate employees’ “non-work” talents (singing, playing a musical instrument, juggling, tap dancing, etc.).
  8. Organize an on-site TED talk, in which employees deliver talks on topics about which they are passionate. Or bring in external speakers around a themed topic. Brit Insurance holds an annual “Celebrate the Difference” series.
  9. Sanction breaks by “formalizing” and integrating them into the culture. For example, ExxonMobil associates take “Fit stop” breaks.
  10. Ask for anonymous feedback at regular intervals. Consider this simple ask — “How are we doing?” Ask, listen, act.

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