OUR WHY

Reported cases of mental illness have increased over 25% since 2020.

In the past few years since the onset of the pandemic, there has been a drastic hike in mental illness cases here in Canada. Surveys indicate an average increase of 25% across the board in regards to mental health diagnosis among Canadian adults (anxiety & major depression disorders). The figures presented only represent a portion of the population, those who chose to seek help. Many more are suffering in silence.

As an employer, your workforce falls squarely into this category and the likelihood is many of your staff are overwhelmed, on the edge of burnout and suffering in silence. assaya wellness spaces was created to be a balm and breath of fresh air in the work environment. We promote care as the solution for productivity. No one can pour from an empty glass. Investing in your workers is investing in your business; physical resources can be replaced, personnel resources cannot.

On this page we make an argument for wellness in the workplace and back it up with statistics. We hope it aids you in making the decision that prioritizes your team.

AN ARGUMENT FOR WELLNESS

It is no secret that the quality of your employees’ physical & mental health directly influences their happiness, performance, and work attendance. To this end, it is critical that employers establish workplace wellness strategies to build a responsive and productive workforce. assaya wellness spaces manifested in response to this need, to create spaces within the workplace for your employees to breathe, pray/meditate, reflect and rejuvenate their energy.

Today, more than 75% of high performing companies are now measuring employee health & wellness status as a key part of their overall risk management strategy, and offer some form of employee wellness program.

A recent meta-analysis found that each dollar spent on wellness programs saves $3.27 in health care costs and $2.73 in absenteeism costs. Although these gains are substantial, they ignore an important class of operational benefits from investing in employee health and well-being—worker productivity. The program appears to have improved average worker productivity by over 4%, approximately equal to adding an additional day of productive work per month for each employee conservatively estimate a return on investment of 76% purely based on productivity gains.

The truth is, the average employee is productive for only 3 hours a day, in an ordinary working world (based on a study by…). It’s an alarming statistic, considerably significant for businesses working towards boosting employee performance, and increasing profitability. There are many reasons behind this poor employee engagement; the most common being stress.

The following are the Top 5 Distractions that your employees partake in, when not being productive:

Checking social media – 47%
Reading news websites – 45%
Discussing out of work activities with colleagues – 38%
Making hot drinks – 31%
Smoking breaks – 28%

65% of employees who participated in this study believed they could not get through the working day without partaking in any distractions. Of these, 54% explained that they made the working day ‘more bearable’, and felt their productivity for the rest of the working day ‘benefited from the intermittent breaks’.

This is a critical point in the discussion of productivity in your workplace. Understand, the distractions are not the issue here, the environment of the workplace that necessitates these distractions is.

Your employees meet the threshold of incapacity at least 3-4 times a day. At that moment, a distraction or break is absolutely necessary if they are to continue the remaining hours of their work day being efficient in duties. At this point, a wise employer would consider what the most effective and beneficial break or distraction they could provide and regulate, that would assist their employees with successfully refreshing their energy and getting back to work.