Embracing stress prevention at the workplace

Stress at the workplace can lead to unhappy, unhealthy employees. However, there are practical and easy measures to start actively preventing stress. Start by identifying triggers of stress to their workplace, such as the environment, inflexible working hours and tailoring actions to address these risks.

1. Embrace health & well-being — Show your commitment to reducing stress through company-wide adoption of health & well-being practices. Introduce programs to encourage physical activity breaks, leaving early and taking time off work, eating well and providing 1:1 emotional counselling — these are examples of effective steps to create a healthier culture towards managing stress.

2. Embrace technology — Deploying technology to automate and simplify various aspects of your employees’ workload will cultivate greater efficiency and productivity. A service management software such as Fleetmatics WORK allows the business to take schedules, invoices, quotes and more off your desk and onto the cloud, reducing the hassle of paperwork. Ultimately, the employees get through more in a day in less time, and the business becomes healthier in the process.

3. Embrace flexibility — Technological advances are enabling more Australian businesses to develop greater flexibility in the workplace. For example, a mobile field service app offers employees on the road the ability to easily record, update and invoice from anywhere and skip having to return to the office to file paperwork. Managers and employers can easily view and update employees’ schedules to assign and handle new jobs.

Start working smarter, not harder, and reap the benefits of lower levels of stress at the workplace!

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