Corporate well-being
A healthy workforce is good for business. Apart from reducing absenteeism, there is increasing
evidence that suggests a connection between good performance and employees who are in good
condition. The Harvard Medical School recently found that the most healthy 25% of a workforce are
seven hours more productive per week than the least healthy 25%.
2. I-to-i is one of a growing number of companies that is trying to improve the well-being of its staff. But, also like many firms, not everything is working.
3. "You could say we’re a company full of good intentions, but things often prevent us from doing
exercise or eating what we should," says Sarah Horner, public relations manager of the organisation,
which provides opportunities for volunteer travel and training for TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign
Language). "We would like advice on what we can do to encourage all our 50 employees in our UK office to become really healthy."
4. The company has already experimented with a few strategies. "About six months ago, we introduced
an initiative called ‘Fruity Friday’, which means all employees get free fruit on that day," explains Ms
Horner. "It’s become really popular: when the fruit arrives, people are informed online and, almost
immediately, they’re off to the kitchen to get some. The problem is that in the rest of the week, we
consume enormous amounts of sweets and biscuits."
5. At least staff at i-to-i are eating less bad food than they used to. "At one stage we had a box full of
chocolate, which seemed like a really nice way to reward staff. But it was almost too successful, and
people were picking from it all the time. In the end, some staff members actually asked for it to be
removed because they couldn’t resist temptation," she adds.
6. The firm has also tried introducing weekly Tai Chi classes to relieve stress and improve well-being. "But they were arranged before work and unfortunately they had to be cancelled because not enough people could attend. Some travel long distances so they couldn’t get here early enough. I wanted to attend, but couldn’t because of the time of the classes."
7. Rather more successful was the Caledonian Challenge, which a fifth of the staff recently undertook. "You walk 54 miles (86.4 kilometres) in Scotland, through the night," explains Ms Horner. "We also arranged a 14-mile (22.4 km) hike recently, which we did for the charity we support, and even more people did that - probably because it was far less challenging. Nevertheless, it was still under half the workforce."
8. Above all, i-to-i would like to know what measures it can introduce on a daily basis, as well as on occasions, to get staff feeling their best. It would prefer to concentrate them in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release - and it would like the initiatives to be long-term where possible.
evidence that suggests a connection between good performance and employees who are in good
condition. The Harvard Medical School recently found that the most healthy 25% of a workforce are
seven hours more productive per week than the least healthy 25%.
2. I-to-i is one of a growing number of companies that is trying to improve the well-being of its staff. But, also like many firms, not everything is working.
3. "You could say we’re a company full of good intentions, but things often prevent us from doing
exercise or eating what we should," says Sarah Horner, public relations manager of the organisation,
which provides opportunities for volunteer travel and training for TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign
Language). "We would like advice on what we can do to encourage all our 50 employees in our UK office to become really healthy."
4. The company has already experimented with a few strategies. "About six months ago, we introduced
an initiative called ‘Fruity Friday’, which means all employees get free fruit on that day," explains Ms
Horner. "It’s become really popular: when the fruit arrives, people are informed online and, almost
immediately, they’re off to the kitchen to get some. The problem is that in the rest of the week, we
consume enormous amounts of sweets and biscuits."
5. At least staff at i-to-i are eating less bad food than they used to. "At one stage we had a box full of
chocolate, which seemed like a really nice way to reward staff. But it was almost too successful, and
people were picking from it all the time. In the end, some staff members actually asked for it to be
removed because they couldn’t resist temptation," she adds.
6. The firm has also tried introducing weekly Tai Chi classes to relieve stress and improve well-being. "But they were arranged before work and unfortunately they had to be cancelled because not enough people could attend. Some travel long distances so they couldn’t get here early enough. I wanted to attend, but couldn’t because of the time of the classes."
7. Rather more successful was the Caledonian Challenge, which a fifth of the staff recently undertook. "You walk 54 miles (86.4 kilometres) in Scotland, through the night," explains Ms Horner. "We also arranged a 14-mile (22.4 km) hike recently, which we did for the charity we support, and even more people did that - probably because it was far less challenging. Nevertheless, it was still under half the workforce."
8. Above all, i-to-i would like to know what measures it can introduce on a daily basis, as well as on occasions, to get staff feeling their best. It would prefer to concentrate them in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release - and it would like the initiatives to be long-term where possible.
Adapted from The Independent, 04 September 2005
Answer the following questions:
1. Why is a healthy workforce good for business?
2. What happens on ‘Fruity Friday’? Is this initiative a complete success? Why/why not?
3. What did i-to-i give its staff as a reward? Why did they stop it?
4. Why did the firm cancel the Tai Chi classes?
5. What was the ‘Caledonian Challenge’?
6. Why was the 14-mile hike more popular than the Caledonian Challenge?
7. Which key areas does the firm want to focus its health initiatives on?
1. Why is a healthy workforce good for business?
2. What happens on ‘Fruity Friday’? Is this initiative a complete success? Why/why not?
3. What did i-to-i give its staff as a reward? Why did they stop it?
4. Why did the firm cancel the Tai Chi classes?
5. What was the ‘Caledonian Challenge’?
6. Why was the 14-mile hike more popular than the Caledonian Challenge?
7. Which key areas does the firm want to focus its health initiatives on?
ОтветитьУдалитьSummary
The article is headlined “Corporate well-being” taken from “The independent”.
The article deals with the role of a healthy workforce in business.
The author mentions about “I-to-i” company that is trying to improve the well-being of its staff. According to the article, the company has already tried several strategies such as “Fruit Friday,” weekly Tai Chi classes to relieve stress and Caledonian challenge. However, it would be wise to mention that not everything works as perfectly as them would like. But according to the manager of public relations, Sarah Horner, there are still small advantages.
In conclusion the author notes that “i-to-i” would prefer to concentrate in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release.
answers on questions
1. A healthy workforce is good for business because there is a link between good performance and good employee health.
2. Initiative called “Fruity Friday” means all employees get free fruit on that day. This initiative was not crowned with complete success, because on the other days the employees consumed a huge amount of sweets.
3. They had a box full of chocolate to reward employees. But some staff members actually asked for it to be removed because they couldn’t resist temptation.
4. The firm cancel the Tai Chi classes because they were arranged before work and enough people couldn’t attend.
5. The Caledonian Challenge was that you walk 54 miles (86.4 kilometres) in Scotland, through the night.
6. The 14-mile hike was more popular than the Caledonian Challenge because it was far less challenging
7. I-to-I company would prefer to concentrate in three key areas—eating, exercise and stress release.
1) a healthy workforce is healthier for business because employees get their jobs done with their energy.
ОтветитьУдалить2)On “Fruity Friday” employees are given free fruit and they all follow them to the kitchen when they are informed. there is no complete success, but fewer workers eat junk food
3) a box of chocolate was given as a reward. but they stopped doing it because the employees could not resist the chocolate
4) they had to be cancelled because not enough people could attend. Some travel long distances so they couldn’t get here early enough. I wanted to attend, but couldn’t because of the time of the classes.
5) The Caledonian Challenge was a 54-mile walk in Scotland at night
6) the 14-mile hike more popular than the Caledonian Challenge because it was less difficult
7) It would prefer to concentrate them in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release - and it would like the initiatives to be long-term where possible.
Summary
The article is headlined “Corporate well-being” taken from “The independent”.
The main message is that a healthy workforce is better for business and why it is?
The author talks about an i-to-i company that is trying to improve the welfare of its employees. the company offers several options such as “Fruity Friday”, weekly Tai Chi classes to relieve stress , Caledonian challenge and the 14-mile hike.
Each of the options had its own advantages, but did not achieve complete success.
In the end they come to the conclusion that employees need to focus on three key areas : eating, exercise and stress release.
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УдалитьThe article headlined “Corporate well-being” is taken from “The independent”.
ОтветитьУдалитьThe main idea is the importance of a healthy workforce for business.
As an example, the author talks about an i-to-i company that has already carried out some measures to improve the health of the workforce.The most successful of them is a Caledonian Challenge.
In conclusion, the author mentions that "I-to-I" would prefer to focus on three key areas-food, exercise, and stress relief and it would like the initiatives to be long-term where possible.
1. A healthy workforce is good for business because there is a link between the health of workers and good productivity.
ОтветитьУдалить2. In "Fruit Friday", which means that all employees receive free fruit on that day," it became really popular, but the problem was that the rest of the week, employees consume a huge amount of sweets and cookies.
3. Аs a reward, the I-to-i gave its employees a box of chocolate, but in the end, many employees asked to remove it because they could not resist the temptation.
4. Tai Chi classes were canceled because they started before work and there weren't enough people to attend.
5. The Caledonian Challenge her task took place was that the company's staff had to walk 54 miles in Scotland through the night.
6. The 14 mile hike was much more successful than the Caledonian challenge probably because it was far less challenging.
7. The company concentrated in three key areas f and concentrated in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release.
Summary
The article is headlined “Corporate well-being” taken from “The independent”.
The article talks about why a healthy workforce is good for business. I-to-I one of a growing number of companies that is trying to improve the well-being of its employees.
According to the article, she conducts various activities for this purpose, such as «Fruity Friday», weekly Tai Chi classes to relieve stress and improve well-being, as well as the Caledonian Challenge and a 14-mile hike. These events are really considered successful, many of them are successful. Of course, not everything is always smooth. Each of these activities has its own advantages, but they are not yet fully achieved.
In conclusion the author mentions that I-to-i chose to focus on three key areas- eating, exercise and stress release.
Company is it, not she
Удалить1- a healthy workforce good for business because it is more productive than the least healthy
ОтветитьУдалить2- on fruity Friday when the fruit arrives, people are informed online and, almost
immediately, they’re off to the kitchen to get some. It does not have success because in the rest of the week, employees consume enormous amounts of sweets and biscuits.
3- yes, it did. they stoped it because some staffs couldn’t resist temptation that is chocolate.
4- the firm cancel the Tai Chi classes because they were arranged before work and not enough people could attend.
5- the caledonian challenge was a hiking for act of charity done by staffs
6- the 24-mile was more popular than the caledonian challenge because it was far less challenging
7- firm want to focus health initiates on eating, exercise and stress release.
summary
the article headlined "corporate well-being" from the Independent talks about the staff healthy workforce in companies.
It is said that health workforce is very benefit for business. There are some ways to encourage employees such as I-to-i, fruity Friday, Tai Chai classes, hiking challenges which are caledonian and 24-mile hike challenge, volunteer travel and training for TELF. Unfortunately, apart the two last ones which were provided by the organisation, the rests don't have a really success because of their disadvantages.
According to the Author, between all the for of well-beings from the company, it is better to focus on these key areas that are eating, exercise and stress release.
Answers:
ОтветитьУдалить1- Because workers are more and more productive.
2- On Fruit Friday, employees received free fruit, this method was not very successful because on other days of the week people consumed a lot of sweets
3- The company presented the workers with a box of chocolate, but the employees asked them to remove it because they could not resist the temptation
4- The Tai Chi classes cancelled because not enough people could attend.
5- According to Ms Horner, the Caledonian challenge is an 84km night hike across Scotland
6- Since it was organized for charity purposes and was easier
7- It would be best to focus them on three key areas: eating, exercise, and stress relief.
5-The Caledonian Challenge is a multi-kilometer hike*
УдалитьAre more productive *
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ОтветитьУдалить1. a healthy workforce is beneficial because healthy employees are much more productive.
2. Fruity Friday” means employees receive free fruit every Friday. The main problem of such an Action was that the rest of the week the employees still consumed junk food.
3. At one stage, I-to-I employees were rewarded with a box of chocolate. But employees asked not to do this anymore, because they find it difficult to resist the temptation.
4. Because they were organized before starting work. And since most of the employees did not have time to come, the classes had to be canceled.
5. The essence of the Caledonian Challenge was that you had to walk 54 miles across Scotland at night.
6. The 14 mile hike became more popular than the Caledonian Challenge, perhaps because it was much less difficult.
7. He focused them on three key areas: food intake, exercise, and stress relief.
Summary.
The article headlined “Corporate well-being” is taken from The Independent.
The main idea of the article is the health of employees and what role this plays for the organization.
The author cites the example of the I-to-I company, which conducts various Actions to improve the physical condition of its personnel. One of these promotions is "Fruity Friday", the meaning of which is that all employees receive free fruit every Friday. They also do tai chi lessons to improve their physical condition.
Despite the efforts of the organization, not always everything has a positive result. Because employees outside of work also continue to lead unhealthy lifestyles.
In the end, the author concludes that the company should focus on three important components: food, exercise, and stress relief.
The article headlined "Corporate well-being" is taken from The Independent.
ОтветитьУдалитьThe main problem of the article is importance of healthy workforce and it's impact on good performance.
The author talks about the company, that trying to improve the well-being of its staff, but fails. They trying few strategies such as "Fruity Friday", weekly Tai Chi classes, Caledonian Challenge and hike, but still under half the employees involved in this.
The author concludes, that this company prefer to concentrate thetheir measures in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release - and initiatives should be long-term.
Questions.
ОтветитьУдалить1. Healthy workforce effect on good performance of the company.
2. On "Fruity Fridays" the company provides fruits for employees. This strategy not so efficient because on the rest of the week workers eat a lot of unhealthy food.
3. I-to-i gave it's staff chocolate to reward them, bit some staff members actually asked for it to be removed because they couldn’t resist temptation.
4. Tai Chi classes were arranged before work and unfortunately they had to be cancelled because not enough people could attend.
5. Caledonian Challenge is when you walk 54 miles in Scotland, through the night.
6. 14-mile hike was more popular because it was far less challenging.
7. Firm would prefer to concentrate its health initiative in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release - and it would like the initiatives to be long-term where possible.
The article headlined "Corporate well-being" is taken from The Independent. The main message of this article is the impact of health on work and the importance of a healthy workforce. In the article the author gives the example of a company that cares about the welfare of its employees, but it fails to achieve success. The company uses trying few strategies such as "Fruity Friday", weekly Tai Chi classes, Caledonian Challenge and hike. The author's opinion boils down to the fact that the company needs to focus on three areas. Eating, exercise and stress release and the tasks must have a long-term nature.
ОтветитьУдалить1. Because a healthy workforce has an impact on a company's performance.
ОтветитьУдалить2. This is the day of the week when the company gives employees fruit. It's not very effective because employees eat junk food the rest of the time.
3. Chocolate was used for the reward. It was too tempting.
4. The shortage of people led to the cancellation of classes.
5. The Caledonia Challenge is a 54-mile trek through overnight Scotland.
6. Because going 14 miles is easier than going 54 miles.
7. The firm wants to focus on three areas: nutrition, exercise and stress relief.
1. A healthy workforce is good for business because there is a link between the health of workers and good productivity.
ОтветитьУдалить2. In "Fruit Friday", which means that all employees receive free fruit on that day," it became really popular, but the problem was that the rest of the week, employees consume a huge amount of sweets and cookies.
3. Аs a reward, the I-to-i gave its employees a box of chocolate, but in the end, many employees asked to remove it because they could not resist the temptation.
4. Tai Chi classes were canceled because they started before work and there weren't enough people to attend.
5. The Caledonian Challenge her task took place was that the company's staff had to walk 54 miles in Scotland through the night.
6. The 14 mile hike was much more successful than the Caledonian challenge probably because it was far less challenging.
7. The company concentrated in three key areas f and concentrated in three key areas - eating, exercise and stress release.
The article headlined "Corporate well-being" is taken from The Independent.
ОтветитьУдалитьThe article talks about why a healthy workforce is good for business.
The author cites the example of the I-to-I company, which conducts various Actions to improve the physical condition of its personnel. One of these promotions is "Fruity Friday", weekly Tai Chi classes, Caledonian Challenge and hike.
Each of the options had its own advantages, but did not achieve complete success.
In conclusion the author mentions that I-to-i chose to focus on three key areas- eating, exercise and stress release.