Benefits to the employer

Employers that are interested in protecting and enhancing the wellness and quality of life of their staff, will enjoy the following benefits:

  • For the first time, companies are able to measure and monitor scientifically how corporate life impacts the overall well-being of their employee populations.
  • Because the WWBAs are standardised, the measurement process is quick and easy to conduct.
  • The WWBAs highlight particular problems that are not necessarily obvious to the organisation but are considered important to employees themselves.
  • Once the findings are available, a company is able to select and customise training and other business solutions to address specifically the issues identified.
  • By being able to determine the key drivers of well-being, a company can avoid investing budget in unnecessary programmes and ventures.
  • The instruments’ strong measurement properties enable companies to assess differences in work-related well-being levels between different groups of employees at a point in time eg gender, age, location, type of role.
  • Organisations are also able to evaluate the effectiveness of any actions they take over time.
  • As the WWBAs are standardised, companies can benchmark their scores against others for marketing, recruitment and retention purposes using the Work and Well-being Index.