YouTube short in which a speaker argues employee health should be approached holistically: physical, mental, social health and meaning/purpose at work are interconnected. The speaker notes post‑pandemic focus on mental health and that organizations are interested in broader integrated approaches to supporting employees.
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So as we thought about employee health and wellbeing, it is about holistic health because when we look at the underlying drivers behind those things, many of those things feed into each other. So there's a lot of studies that show actually if you're moving and having physical health that actually improves your mental health, social health also improves your mental health. Being in good mental health improves your ability to connect socially. Having some sense of meaning and purpose at work helps drive productivity, also helps with your mental health. So these are all interconnected. And so we saw a real opportunity and need to think about addressing holistic health. We did a deep dive initially on mental health coming out of the pandemic because that was the kind of crisis that we saw and there was a lot of attention on that. But doing that work, we realized that actually many organizations wanted to have the broader conversation on supporting employees across holistic health precisely because so much of this is hard to disaggregate.