Mental health is important for business. In the 21st century the mental health and well-being of your employees is crucial to the success of your organisation. But, how should you as an employer start to address mental health issues in your workplace? And what activities and policies do you need to set in place? In a European campaign work. in tune with life. move europe, the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP) has taken the initiative to help promote mental health in workplaces. This mental health promotion campaign aims to raise awareness amongst both employers and employees
This paper introduces a creative approach aimed at empowering desk-bound occupational groups to address the issue of physical inactivity at workplaces. The approach involves a gamified toolkit called Workplace Vitality Mapping (WVM) (see Figure 1) designed to encourage self-reflection in sedentary contexts and foster the envision of physical vitality scenarios. This hybrid toolkit comprises two main components: A Card Game (on-site) for context reflection and a Co-design Canvas (Online) for co-designing vitality solutions. Through the card games, participants reflect on key sedentary contexts, contemplating their preferable physical vitality scenarios with relevant requirements. The co-design canvas facilitates the collaborative construction and discussion of vitality scenarios’ development. The perceptions and interactions of the proposed toolkit from the target group were studied and observed through a hybrid workshop, which demonstrated promising results in terms of promoting participants’ engagement experience in contextual reflections and deepening their systemic understanding to tackle the physical inactivity issue. As physical inactivity becomes an increasingly pressing concern, this approach offers a promising participatory way for gaining empathetic insights toward community-level solutions.
Dit project betreft een haalbaarheidsonderzoek met als centrale vraag: Welke data zijn precies nodig om kenniswerkers te ondersteunen om een duurzame gezonde gedragsverandering binnen de werkomgeving vorm te geven en moeten die worden verwerkt en geanalyseerd om tot bruikbare informatie te komen?
Data, data, data, data en nog eens meer data. Binnen de Innnovatiewerkplaats Healthy WorkPlace worden veel werkplek- en persoonsgerelateerde data verzameld. De vraag is nu wat we met die data kunnen, welke data gaan echt helpen om een ‘healthy workplace’ te creëren? Dit project richt zich op het ontwikkelen van een Proof of Concept, op basis waarvan vervolgens tools ontwikkeld kunnen worden met, door en voor de MKB-partners uit de creatieve sector.
The Healthy Workplace monitor is being developed to monitor the health and well-being of knowledge workers in relation to the office space and their home workplace. Since the corona period, a lot has changed in the way knowledge workers work. Both offices and employees require more flexibility to carry out work in an efficient but also healthy and enjoyable way. It is important to identify office workers needs with regard to workspaces at the office and at home from a holistic view, in which mental , physical and social aspects play a role. A vital, happy employee is a productive employee.
