Xero, the global small business platform, is encouraging all Kiwi small business owners to take part in a series of simple steps to check in on the wellbeing of their team during September.
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The Check In consists of quick and easy activities that don’t require a lot of time or money and help leaders to get to know their team, foster stronger connections, support others to look after themselves and make it okay to ask for help. It also includes additional wellbeing resources and policy guides for small businesses that want to take wellbeing further.
The initiative comes after research revealed that since the country’s first Alert Level 4 lockdown in March, 58% of small business employees have not talked about wellbeing in their workplace and more than a third (36%) of Kiwi small businesses employees haven’t been offered any wellbeing support.
Craig Hudson, Managing Director for New Zealand and Pacific Islands at Xero, says it can be really hard to know where to start but there is a clear benefit for all small businesses to address wellbeing in the workplace.
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“The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our small business industry is far-reaching – impacting wellbeing and inflating the stresses many of us feel day-to-day. All workplaces play a central role in building people’s resilience and positive wellbeing, helping them to be healthy, contributing members to their families and communities,” says Hudson.
According to the survey, 36.4% of SME employees would actively like more personal wellbeing support from their employer, while 56% of Kiwi employees would make use of a wellbeing and support programme if it was available at their workplace.
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