When it comes to wellbeing, Romanian employees prefer arts & hobbies workshops, says player

Newsroom 06/10/2016 | 10:52

7 out of 10 employees feel unmotivated in the company they work for, showed a Gallup study. This reality costs the companies each year USD 450-550 billions, due to the fall of the productivity and the need to solve the employees’ health issues, most of them caused by the stress at the work place.

The wellbeing concept appeared in Romania in 2010, today more and more companies starting to use it and evolving towards the balance between the personal life – professional life for its employees. If in 2012 Smart Experience had only 12 companies in its portfolio looking for wellbeing services, in 2016 the company reached 52 companies using its services. The biggest number (10) of companies interested in wellbeing and come from IT& Telecom, Finance & Banking. Seven companies are from the constructions and the services fields, followed by 6 companies from each of the following categories FMCG, Pharma and Technology.

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Moreover, half of the wellbeing services provided by Smart Experience in 2016 come from the arts & hobbies category, the other half being divided into personal development (23 percent), beauty & fashion (16 percent), healthy lifestyle & sports (10 percent), only 1 percent coming from professional development.

When it comes to the perspectives for 2017, according to the Smart Experience’s specialists, 2017 will belong to the arts & hobby workshops (51 percent of the total workshops), following this year’s trend. It’s also presented a rise in opportunity and interest towards the beauty & fashion category (reaching 19 percent) and the professional development (growing with 3 percent and reaching 4 percent of the total number). The statistic resulted after 1000 employees told their opinion about what type of workshop they would like to attend in their company next year.

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