Employeewelfare
Employee welfare describes the various services, benefits and facilities offered to employees by the employers, which are designed to create a healthy and happy workforce. The welfare measures need not be monetary but could be in any kind/forms.
Common measures
Quality of working conditions: this is a measure of the physical and environmental conditions of the workplace that affect individual employees and their ability to deliver against their objectives in a productive and healthy way. Measures here will depend on the sector, organisation and local regulatory framework.
For example, in a chemical plant, an organisation might measure the concentration of airborne hazardous chemicals to ensure they do not exceed the administrative control levels.
Infrastructure for health and wellbeing: a measure of the provisions provided by the organisation that create a healthy workplace for individuals and enable the organisation to fulfil its duty of care to employees. This may include measures of uptake for cycle-to-work schemes, career break provision, and corporate gym membership.
For example, % employees benefitting from corporate gym membership.
Case study
Ben Saunders, Senior HR Manager at Bircham Dyson Bell discusses how his organisation used people measures to implement and measure the success of a flexible working programme, increasing diversity and the organisation’s employer of choice status.
Listen to the podcast: Bircham Dyson Bell case study