The value of having a flexible well-being program

The importance of investing and adopting a corporate well-being program has become clear in recent years. In years past, before our world was permanently traversed by the COVID-19 pandemic, work-life emphasis centered around bottom-line business outcomes. Today, priorities have found themselves in a new hierarchical order.  

C-Suite executives almost universally agree that wholistic employee well-being is the heartbeat of a successful company. Now, as those executives and buyers become more familiar with the landscape, they’re focusing keenly on a unique and special attribute of those corporate well-being programs: flexibility. 

The value of flexibility cannot be understated

Just like employees shouldn’t have to choose between work and well-being, decision makers need to trust the adaptability and customization of their well-being platform. Despite it being more common than it should be, Limeade believes being cemented into a one-size-fits-all wellness technology is antiquated and contrarian.  

Take the following situation for example: With Limeade, data-driven insights afforded through the solution allow organizations to continually tune their well-being focus to the unique needs of their employees. If you’re seeing an increased desire for mental health support among employees for instance, you can deliver to those needs by working with a Limeade strategic account executive to figure out how to support employees in these areas with tools, resources, and functionality. This benefit has far-reaching impacts, often leading to forms of cost avoidances down the road. 

According to a recent Forrester study, “while employees’ needs are one driver of well-being programming, another big component is the research conducted by the Limeade Institute. Limeade gives customers access to content and resources while also leveraging best practices gained from Limeade experience, including monthly or quarterly activities that encourage employee adoption and reliable participation (The Total Economic Impact™ Of Limeade, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, 2022)”. 

“One of the things that we enjoy about Limeade is their strong personalization and the fact that they have machine learning and AI built into the platform to provide an experience that is more like a streaming service in terms of curating personalized content. Previous platforms and wellness efforts cast a wide net and tried to catch as many [participants] as possible versus really individualizing an approach to help people be at their best.” 

— Healthcare wellness program manager interviewed for the Forrester study 

Employee data and flexible technology

A key to successfully implementing flexible technology is to leverage employee data. The commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Limeade in 2022, referenced above, describes how a wellness manager from a professional services organization utilizes employee data to identify regional offices that would get the most out of amenities such as fitness centers. Making informed decisions about where to build certain amenities avoids costs associated with building and maintaining facilities in areas where they would go unused.  

These are real, impactful and flexible decisions that Limeade enables.  Well-being at work includes all the interactions and behaviors that employees engage in throughout their workday — and to make meaningful decisions from those small and big behaviors, a personalized well-being experience cannot be overlooked.

Don’t delay. Begin infusing small moments of personalized care in your work today.