Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces

Chicago Regional Summit Seminar Review

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Chicago 28th September 2015

The Global Centre on Healthy Workplaces and the Health Enhancement Research Organisation (HERO) played host to a successful global seminar in Chicago on September 28. The seminar focused on key health and productivity challenges and examples of good practices applied on a global scale.

The opening session highlighted the latest well-being and workplace health trends and featured Doug Stover from Gallup as well as Barry Hall (Buck Consultants) and Wolf Kirsten (Global Centre on Healthy Workplaces). Stephen Bevan from the Work Foundation gave an excellent account of what does (and does not) make for a healthy workplace drawing from examples within the UK. Ron Joines, Global Medical Director at GSK, provided an enlightening case study of his company’s healthy workplace programme, and it is easy to see why it won the Global Healthy Workplace Multinational Award 2015.

The seminar concluded with an interactive panel discussing the challenges of developing global metrics featuring Wayne Burton from American Express, Howard Kraft from Mercer and Zorianna Hyworon from Infotech.

Presentations from our Chicago Seminar are now available: Click here!

Workplace Health Rises Up Business Leaders Agenda

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Good Health equals Good Business

More than 50 CEOs and institutional investors are expected to join 150 health professionals and academics from over 20 countries at the 3rd Global Healthy Workplace Summit which will take place in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 18th – 19th May. The gathering of business leaders and investors is a further illustration of the growing importance being given to the affect health and wellness has on business productivity.

The highlight of the Global Summit will be the presentations featuring the world’s leading programs by the six Award Finalists, which cover all sizes of employers, namely:

Multi-national: GlaxoSmithKline (UK), Chevron (USA).
Large Employers: Unilever (Brazil), Vanderbilt University (USA).
Small & Medium Sized: Lan Spar Bank (Denmark), Naya Jeevan (Pakistan).

The Summit will hear about the latest trends in workplace health and wellbeing from Gallup, OECD, and Buck Consultants. Participants will have an opportunity to peer into the future at how changes in workplace practices from technology to psychosocial conditions increasing stress will affect health and productivity over the longer term from a presentation from Stanford University. For CEOs interested in the value of their share price, perhaps most attention will be on the investment community’s perspective with presentations fromDeutsche Asset & Wealth Management, and analyst Ray Fabius of HealthNext. “Good investors are always looking to find ever more sophisticated ways to understand the underlying strength of a company. Health and wellbeing are powerful indicators in assessing the businesses ability to attract, retain and motivate top performing employees. In fact there is increasing evidence that a healthy workforce provides a competitive advantage.” says Ray Fabius.

Hosting this year’s Summit, which is organised by Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces, is FIESC SESI. The FIESC president, Glauco José Côrte said; “The lack of investment and continuous and systematic actions in promoting quality of life has been responsible for the burdensome and increasing costs of absenteeism and turnover, as well as compromising productivity. Therefore, the promotion of healthy workplaces and the wellbeing of workers from any industry is the basic condition for its growth and development”.

The Summit will be live streamed in over 200 countries from 18-19th May via the following link: https://www.globalhealthyworkplace.org/event/3rd-global-healthy-workplace-summit-florianopolis-2015/

World’s Best Healthy Workplaces Chosen

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Global Healthy Workplace Awards Summit – Brazil 18th -19th May

This year’s top employers for having a healthy workplace programme were announced at the 3rd Global Healthy Workplace Summit which took place in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 18th – 19th May.

The winners of these prestigious Awards were:
Multi-national: GlaxoSmithKline (UK)
Large Employers: Unilever (Brazil)
Small & Medium Sized: Lan Spar Bank (Denmark)

The runners up of these prestigious Awards were:
Multi-national: Chevron (USA)
Large Employers:Vanderbilt University (USA)
Small & Medium Sized: Naya Jeevan (Pakistan)

The gathering of business leaders and investors is a further illustration of the growing importance being given to the affect health and wellness has on business productivity. The Summit heard the latest trends in workplace health and wellbeing with stress being a major concern. A survey published by the Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces showed that more than a third of employers rate the stress level within their organization as “high or very high.” US employers rate stress levels the highest, with 53% rating levels as “high or very high” compared to 34% in Brazil, 30% in Singapore and 28% in UK. Employee performance was seen as the most important reason organizations address work-related stress and poor mental well-being. Of the employers surveyed, 87% believe it is extremely or very important, with workplace accidents and injuries extremely important for 41%. Employee engagement, productivity and motivation follow closely behind.
Wolf Kirsten, co-director of Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces said, “This latest survey shows that stress and mental wellbeing is at the top of employer’s agenda. It has a direct impact on the output and performance of business organisations. On a positive side, there is growing evidence that Chief Executives are taking it seriously and our Awards programme is designed to enable employers to share better practice in tackling such issues.”

2015 Finalists Named in Global Healthy Workplace Awards

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Good Health is Good Business

 

Six employers named as Global Healthy Workplace Award finalists will present their programmes on a world stage at the 3rd Global Healthy Workplace Awards and Summit (GHWAwards) taking place May 18-19 at the Resort Costao Do Santinho, Florianopolis, Brazil.

Employers from over 20 countries vied for the distinction of being considered among the world’s healthiest workplaces. GHWAwards submissions were reviewed by an international panel of health and wellness experts from five continents who judged the programmes. Judges remarked that it was ‘exceptionally difficult to select the finalists for this year’s Awards, such was the high quality of entries’.

A highlight of the Summit will be the presentations by the six finalists, whose programmes represent the best of the international business community’s ability to successfully promote good health among their employees and the communities they serve. The Summit will attract over 200 leaders from business, public health, academia, government and non-government organizations (NGOs), united in the belief that employers have an important role to play in ensuring a healthy and productive workforce.

The three winning employers will be announced at the close of the Summit. For the draft agenda and to book your place at the Summit, visit:
https://www.globalhealthyworkplace.org/event/3rd-global-healthy-workplace-summit-florianopolis-2015/ 

The finalists are:

Multi-national Employers category

GlaxoSmithKline (UK)
Chevron (USA)

Large Employers category

Unilever (Brazil)
Vanderbilt University (USA)

Small and Mid-Sized Employers category

Lan Spar Bank (Denmark)
Naya Jeevan (Pakistan)

The global panel of judges are:

+ North America – Nico Pronk, HealthPartners, USA
+ South America – Alberto Ogata, ABQV, Brazil
+ Europe – Stephen Bevan, The Work Foundation, UK
+ Africa – Edith Clarke, Ghana Health Service, Ghana
+ Asia – Daphne Koek, Health Promotion Board Singapore, Singapore

SESI are sponsors of the 2015 GHWAwards, which is hosted by Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces (GCHW). GCHW is also the joint sponsor with the Buck Consultants at Xerox of the 2015 Mental Well-being Survey Promoting Mental Well-being: Addressing Worker Stress and Psychosocial Risks, which results will be unveiled at the Florianopolis Summit.

For more information contact info@globalhealthyworkplace.org and visit https://www.globalhealthyworkplace.org