Kim Rader Subject:
How Can the Workplace Help Employees Flourish?
How Can the Workplace Help Employees Flourish? [Greeting] A typical full-time worker will have spent roughly 90,000 hours actively working by the time they retire. How and where we spend that extraordinary investment greatly affects our ability to flourish. Described as a state of goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience, flourishing is the epitome of wellbeing and a key mechanism of optimal human performance. On the mental health spectrum, this ideal state of physical, mental, and emotional fitness exists at the opposite end of depression. Languishing, or a sense of stagnation, sits at the midpoint. While companies strive to create workplace environments that support employee well-being, fewer than 50% of employees say they are flourishing at work. The majority feel they are moderately mentally healthy; nearly 7% believe they are languishing. According to positive psychologist Martin Seligman, the capacity to flourish hinges on six criteria, coined the PERMA-V framework for wellbeing: Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, and Vitality. Our team is particularly interested in the question of how workplace design can support each of these factors. Read on to learn about simple design interventions that can help set the stage for human flourishing. Best, [SENDER NAME]
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