- 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.
- 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?
- Have healthy snacks available daily in break areas, meeting rooms, and all areas where employees congregate. Deloitte University nails this.
- 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.).
- 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.
- 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.
- Organize and put on a talent show to celebrate employees’ “non-work” talents (singing, playing a musical instrument, juggling, tap dancing, etc.).
- 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.
- Sanction breaks by “formalizing” and integrating them into the culture. For example, ExxonMobil associates take “Fit stop” breaks.
- Ask for anonymous feedback at regular intervals. Consider this simple ask — “How are we doing?” Ask, listen, act.
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