Employee health and wellbeing
COVID-19 enterprise resilience checklist: We help you navigate the now, next and beyond
Employee health and wellbeing: key considerations
Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) should focus on protecting their people from the public health threat.
- Leadership communication and engagement with the workforce throughout the pandemic informed by national and global public health guidelines
- Educate employees about COVID-19 symptoms and prevention; review sick leave polices and establish procedures to support employees through this period
- Help enabling safe remote working environments working alongside IT
- Where work continues to be completed in the workplace, work with operations to provide epidemic protection – personal protective equipment, sanitation etc
- Identify and support ‘stranded’ colleagues in transit and globally mobile colleagues and their families
CHROs should focus on maintaining employee trust and leading through disruption.
- Educate the workforce on how to manage their teams remotely
- Create and execute a strategy to address employee wellbeing issues such as awareness and utilization of employee health benefits, isolation, childcare responsibilities
- Encourage and support virtual communities to encourage connectivity
- Deploy remote work pulse surveys to gauge sentiment and productivity leveraging analytics tools
- Understand new travel restrictions and impact on colleagues and operations
- Think creatively around maintaining workforce capability but reducing short term capacity (reduced hours, furloughs etc.)
Operate a new normal and enable the business to better respond to future disruptions.
- Adapt business planning to incorporate new scenarios and gather lessons learnt to better prepare for future crises
- Reimagine Employee Experience and ask your workforce for reactions
- Embed wellbeing policies and working practices into the corporate DNA
- Develop incentives for employees that proactively engage in preventive care
- Evaluate workplaces and facilities to mitigate the impact of future public health threats where possible
- Implement new products and services to emphasize HR as a critical enabler of people value and business outcomes
- Incorporate agile and digital talent upskilling and reskilling into your learning strategy