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Top Health Tip by Oliver Gray

2010-01-08T07:39:00.000-08:00

Oliver Gray is the founder of www.energiseyou.com as is one of the UK’s Leading Experts on Health & Wellbeing for the Workplace

The Glycemic index (GI). This is a rating of 0-100 for all carbohydrates and relates to the speed they are absorbed, which consequently affects blood sugar levels

Top tip – Avoid food containing refined high GI carbohydrates, such as crisps, rice cakes and bread. Keep the medium GI carbohydrates to a minimum: pasta, rice and potatoes. Aim for the low GI carbohydrates to make up the bulk of your carbohydrate intake: fruit, vegetables, oat cakes, porridge oats.

The benefits:

Fruit and vegetables will give you vitamins, minerals and fibre
Slower release means your appetite will be satisfied for longer
Higher and more sustained energy levels for life and exercise
Helps to avoid your sugar levels dropping to low
Improved concentration and focus

energiseYou services:
Health & Safety Consultants
Workstation Assessments
On Site Chair Massage
Office Yoga
Wellbeing Seminars & Workshops
Nutrition Workshop

Top Health tip of the month by Oliver Gray

2009-12-14T04:19:00.000-08:00

Oliver Gray is the founder of www.energiseyou.com as is one of the UK’s Leading Experts on Health & Wellbeing for the Workplace.

Is your body Balanced?

Top tip – Being left or right handed means you are doing so much with one side of the body. Teach yourself to do the daily stuff with the other hand - holding the phone, using the mouse, shaving, brushing your teeth, carrying your bag. Once you’ve mastered this, swap it around each month.

The benefits:

Helps prevent hip, shoulder, neck and back problems
Helps to prevent RSI from excess computer use
Helps co-ordination, mobility and flexibility
Helps improve your performance both in sport and everyday activities

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Top Health tip of the month by Oliver Gray

2009-12-04T01:59:00.000-08:00

Oliver Gray is the founder of www.energiseyou.com as is one of the UK’s Leading Experts on Health & Wellbeing for the Workplace.

Nutrition for high energy, your calorie intake should be around: 40% good low GI carbohydrates, 30% good protein, 30% good fat

Top tip – To make this easy, fill just over half your meal with good low GI carbohydrates and just under half with good protein, plus make sure each meal contains some good fats.

An Example Day:

Porridge or granola, with seeds & nut mix, blueberries & rice milk
Apple & small handful of almonds
Chicken & avocado salad
Nectarine & Oatcakes with almond butter
Salmon & vegetables

The benefits:

Good overall health and wellbeing, disease prevention
High energy levels and improved performance
Weight loss (for most people nutrition makes up 80% of the impact on weight loss)
Gives eyes, hair, nails and skin a healthy glow
Helps to improve sleep quality
Good nutrition can become your new habit

Happy Testimonial

2009-11-20T08:11:00.000-08:00

In my opinion the enerigiseYou Nutrition Workshop is a must for any company wanting to improve employee wellbeing, energy and productivity. The energiseYou 2 hour Nutrition Workshop is well structured, fun, interactive and the trainer was great – very supportive and non-judgemental. My team and I all learnt lot's of practical information and tips to help improve the way we eat and drink, plus it uncovered a lot of myths about Nutrition. Additionally, we all got to set a personal health goal and identify action steps towards achieving this. I cannot recommend this workshop highly enough!
Cathy Busani - Managing Director Happy Ltd, Ranked in the Top UK 50 Best Workplaces as well as Best Company in the UK for Health & Wellbeing 2009 (Great Place to Work Institute Awards)

Benefits of giving up smoking

2009-11-06T06:26:00.000-08:00

The benefits begin straight away. You reduce your risk of getting serious disease no matter what age you give up. However, the sooner you stop, the greater the reduction in your risk. If you have smoked since being a teenager or young adult:
If you stop smoking before the age of about 35, your life expectancy is only slightly less than people who have never smoked.
If you stop smoking before the age of 50, you decrease the risk of dying from smoking-related diseases by 50%.

The benefits when you quit smoking, on your health, finances and confidence can motivate you to stop and stay stopped. Within just 20 minutes of quitting the healing process begins.
What's in it for you?
Family members, friends, colleagues and associates who don't smoke also benefit when you stop. Find out how...

Benefits of Quitting Smoking

Blood pressure and pulse return to normal.

Nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in blood reduce by half. Oxygen levels return to normal.

Carbon monoxide will be eliminated from the body. Lungs start to clear out mucous and other smoking debris.

There is no nicotine left in the body. Ability to taste and smell is greatly improved.

Breathing becomes easier. Bronchial tubes begin to relax and energy levels increase.

Circulation improves.

Coughs, wheezing and breathing problems improve as lung functions are increased by up to 10%.

Risk of heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

Risk of lung cancer falls to about half that of a smoker. Risk of heart attack falls to the same as someone who has never smoked.

More Benefits of Giving Up Smoking

Confidence
Stopping smoking is a challenge. Once you have quit, you will know you can succeed at difficult takes and take more control of your life. Quitting helps you believe in yourself.

Fitness
Smoking makes it harder to exercise and reduces the benefits to your body. Smokers have more coughs and colds than non-smokers and take longer to feel well again.

Money
In a way, giving up smoking is like getting a pay rise, as much as £1500 a year if you smoke 20 cigarettes a day.

Appearance
Skin starved of oxygen by smoking becomes dry and grey. Wrinkles around the eyes and mouth develop much earlier and the tar stains your teeth and fingers.

Fertility
Men who smoke may suffer impotence due to damage to the blood vessels in the penis. Sperm quality and density can also be affected by smoking. Smokers may produce less sperm and their sperm may have more abnormalities.
Women who smoke take longer to conceive and are more likely to have a miscarriage.

Childbirth
Babies born to mothers who smoked in pregnancy are more likely to be premature, stillborn or die shortly after birth. A baby exposed to tobacco smoke has a higher risk of dying from cot death.

Children
Children whose parents smoke are more likely to get pneumonia and bronchitis in their first year of life, to suffer from more frequent and more severe asthma attacks and to become regular smokers themselves.

By stopping smoking, you can improve your health and enjoy a longer, healthier life.
You will also save money: a 20-a-day smoker now spends over £2,000 a year on cigarettes.
As smoking also causes wrinkled, damaged skin, giving up is likely to make you look better too.

Top tips to stay healthy @ your Computer

2009-10-30T09:45:00.000-07:00

By Oliver Gray www.energiseyou.com
Oliver is one of the UK's Leading Experts on Health & Wellbeing for the Workplace.

Most office workers are spending on average between 30-45 hours per week at their computers. Which is most unnatural. The human body was never designed to sit for such long periods in front of a screen.
So you and your colleagues need to take action to limit the damage.

Posture perfect?
Ensure you are sitting in the optimum position at your desk. Sit in a position which allows approximately 90o at your knees, hips and elbows with your forearms supported on your desk. Also ensure that your eyes are level with the top of your computer screen. This posture will help to prevent work related back and upper body injuries.

How hydrated are you?
Start each day with a 1½ or 2 litre bottle of water, and make sure you finish it by the end of the day. Water will help your concentration and focus as well has helping to keep your energy levels high.

Got a healthy snack to hand?
For health, energy and weight control, eating small healthy meals is best. With this in mind, make sure you have some healthy snacks at your desk to snack on. My preferred healthy snacks include, fruit, vegetables (cucumber or carrots), nuts, (almonds or cashews) oatcakes, or protein bars.

When did you last take a break?
Aim to get up and walk around for 5 minutes every hour. This movement will get the blood circulating and will help to prevent muscular tension build-up that occurs when you're sitting at your desk for prolonged periods.

Ever stretched at your desk?
We build up tension in the upper body from sitting in the same position for long periods. A great way to relieve it is to stand up and stretch a couple of times per day. Do a few stretches for the neck, back, shoulders and forearms. Hold each stretch for 15-20 seconds and remember to relax and breathe as you stretch.

Is your body balanced?
Alternate the phone and the mouse. So, one day use the mouse and phone with your left hand, another day switch to the right. This can take a couple of weeks to master but in the long run will help you keep balanced and help to avoid RSI and tension build up on one side of your body.

Do you know how long you spend sitting?
Prepare for a shock: if you're spending 40 hours per week sitting at a computer, around 56 hours in bed, around 10 hours sitting down to dinner, around 5 hours in front of the TV, around 10 hours sitting on a train, tube or in your car, then that's a grand total of 121 hours of your 168 available hours spent sitting. Aim to fill as much of the rest as possible with movement, this could be sport, the gym, walking, cycling, or yoga. More movement = more energy!

Detox at your desk!
Sitting at your computer for long periods can also affect your mental state of mind. Keeping your workstation tidy and clutter free will benefit your mental state too. I always say 'tidy desk, tidy mind'.

Overloaded?
Batching your tasks is a great way to achieve more each day, which in turns keeps you mentally positive and motivated. Simply give yourself a set period of time on a set task before moving onto another set task for another set period of time.

10 Top Tips to Help Reduce Stress at Work

2009-10-27T07:23:00.000-07:00

Improve your time management and organization skills.
Of the many things you can to in this area the best ones include getting a to do list that works, learning to say "no", asking for help when you need it, and stop setting unrealistic goals for yourself.

Relax and breathe deeply.
Whether you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount or work you have to do or if someone is "in your face", a good thing to do is to "breathe through your nose". You can't get as worked up if you force yourself to breathe through your nose. Your body simply can't maintain the same level of energy without that extra oxygen you get when breathing through your mouth.

Take more breaks from your work.
Even a five-minute break will help. Get away from your desk. Go for a walk - outside is better, but up two flights of stairs and back down is good too. Getting more exercise in general will help you reduce your overall stress levels and that will make it easier to reduce your stress level at work.

Lighten up.
Smile more. We all know laughter reduces stress. You will be amazed at how much more pleasant the people around you are when you make an effort to be pleasant yourself.

Learn to listen better.
Rather than getting upset when others disagree with you, listen actively and find the areas of agreement. Be assertive and stand up for yourself, but don't be rigid.

Fix your environment.
Make whatever adjustments you need to the lighting, temperature, noise level, and other controllable factors in your office.

Don't sweat the small stuff.
Realize that there are some things that just aren't worth worrying about and there are some things you just can't change. Don't waste time stressing over the things in either category.

Get more sleep.
This is another of the things you can do to reduce your overall stress that will have benefits at the office as well. In addition to reducing your stress, it will increase your energy level and your ability to concentrate.

Find a mentor
If not a mentor, a friend will do. Having someone to talk to can take a lot of stress off you.

Spend more time with optimistic people.
Negative people will pull you down to their level. Choose to work with people who have a positive attitude instead.

Instant Offices

2009-10-16T03:46:00.000-07:00

As a Top 100 Best Company to Work For and winners of the 2009 award for Wellbeing, Instant Offices understand how important it is to take care of our staff. By promoting a healthy lifestyle inside and outside of work, you are helping to create an energised, positive and active workforce. This creates an engaged environment for work and leads to better customer service and improved performance as a company.

We use energiseYou for team massages and the brilliant Nutrition Workshop run by Oliver Gray. Both have a terrific effect on our staff, with the Nutrition Workshop giving all of us tools to improve our diets and get more energy all day. We’re already seeing the benefits!

Patricia Bacon, Global Sales & HR Director Instant Offices, Best Company for in the UK for Wellbeing 2009 (Sunday Times top 100 Awards)

How to cut costs without harming your business

2009-10-09T06:07:00.000-07:00

If your turnover has dropped, then you may need to cut costs until you are able to find new ways to increase your revenues. Oliver Gray is the managing director of www.energiseyou.com, a provider of employee wellbeing services to the UK’s most progressive companies. Here are Gray’s top tips to cut costs without harming your business.

Ask the staff for ideas
Involving your staff in the cost-cutting process lets them know that times are tough but that you are all in the same boat together. It also proves to your employees that you value their input. Plus, they may have some good ideas about cutting costs. By getting all of your stuff on board with cost-cutting, you could make a big difference to your overheads.

Stop the staff and client entertainment
If you communicate this well to the staff, they will understand. For clients, ensure you keep in regular contact and look for new ways to add value without adding costs to your business.

Cut your company pension contribution
If your company has a group personal pension scheme, you could look at reducing the company’s pension contribution. This is only a short term solution for cutting costs, however. Read the small print for any other defined contribution schemes and see if you can lower your payments.

Reduce absence
Look at introducing a pro-active employee wellbeing program. Healthy employees lead to healthy profits. They are more productive, off sick less, plus claim less on company PMI & EAP schemes, thereby reducing your premiums. Remember staff absence can be one of your biggest hidden costs.

Negotiate lower supplier costs
Ask suppliers for discounts or see if you can get a better price from a different supplier. In my experience, many suppliers will give a good discount in return for a client testimonial, a referral or early payment each month.

Staff travel costs
Just by putting a stop on staff claiming for cab fares can sometimes cut your travel expenses in half. Sorry cab drivers, but its true!

Stationary
Sometimes the best cost-cutting tips are the most obvious. Use both sides of plain paper in the office and introduce as many paperless systems as possible. Most businesses get through stacks of plain paper each month and this simple change will half your paper bill overnight. Plus it’s good for the environment.

Redundancies
This is an obvious one, if a final resort. You don't want to loose good staff that you will need when your business picks up. Before redundancies, see if any of your staff are open to reduced working hours/days in exchange for reduced salaries.

Health tips on Alcohol

2009-10-07T02:47:00.000-07:00

Alcohol
Q. How many units of alcohol are recommended as the maximum
per week?
A. For men 21 Units (NHS)
A. For women 14 units (NHS)

5 Negatives of too much alcohol per week
1. Dehydrates the body
2. Increases body fat
3. Can effect sleep quality
4. Effects focus, concentration and performance
5. Increases the chance of disease

Aim for 7-8 hours of sleep per night

2009-09-25T03:11:00.000-07:00

Top tip – Get yourself into a routine by getting into bed at the same time each night and getting up at the same time each morning. E.g. in bed by 10.30pm and up by 7.00am

The benefits
· Improved focus & concentration
· Improved energy levels
· Assists in maintaining a strong immune system
· Improved ability to learn new things and improved memory
· Improved enjoyment of life
· Gives your mind, muscles, skin and recovery time

energiseYou provide the following services:

-Health and Safety Consultants

-Workstation Assessments

-On Site Chair Massage

-Office Yoga

-Wellbeing Seminars & Workshops

How to keep your staff happy

2009-09-18T06:50:00.000-07:00

Happy staff can give your business real financial benefits: high staff engagement, motivation, productivity, staff retention, and low absenteeism. Check out these top tips on getting the most out of your workforce.

Oliver Gray is the managing director of energiseYou, a provider of dynamic employee wellbeing services to the UK’s most progressive companies. Here are Oliver’s top tips on keeping your staff happy.

The bi-monthly team meeting
This is a great habit to get into. Every two months, celebrate your company's superstars. Encourage each team member to come up with three business successes they or their team mates have achieved and get these successes up on a flip chart. Really shout about them! This process is great for team morale and creates a real feel-good factor.

As well as celebrating the past two month’s successes, re-clarify the company vision and the next two months' objectives. You will be amazed at how many of your employees need constantly reminding of the company vision and the key business targets.

Reward exceptional performance
Be inventive and reward with experiences, not money. Employees will associate the great experience with recognition for their work and this process can create a strong positive pattern for future performance.

For example, at energiseYou, I've rewarded staff with: a dinner for two at a great restaurant; a 30-minute back massage at work; a weekend in Paris; £50 voucher for a facial, manicure or pedicure; a day in a hot air balloon; or a day driving a sports car around a racetrack.

Healthy, energised staff = happy, productive staff
Keep your staff healthy and energised by undertaking regular workstation and posture assessments. A fruitbowl in the office is an affordable way to keep your employees stocked up on vitamins. And extras like subsidised gym membership encourages staff to keep active. Additionally, if you really want to go the extra mile, you can organise health and wellbeing seminars and circulate a monthly email with top health tips and fun recipes.

Encourage a good work/life balance
Where possible be flexible with staff working hours and provide staff with a range of options to suit their individual needs. Whether it's four-day work weeks, working from home on occasions, start late/finish late, start early/finish early or even sabbaticals for long-serving staff, enabling staff to balance their work and personal life plays a key part in staff happiness and retention.

Health tips about Employee Wellbeing

2009-09-04T02:46:00.000-07:00

Water
Q. How much water should we drink per day?
A. The Food Standards agency and British Dietetic Association recommend 1.5 - 2 litres of water per day.

Top 5 benefits of drinking water and keeping super hydrated
1. Prevents headaches and dizziness, improves concentration
2. Improve digestion
3. Aids weight loss
4. Hydrates skin, giving you a healthy glow
5. Keeps joints well oiled, helping prevent joint diease such as arthritis in later life

Find out more about our Nutrition Workshop

What are the benefits of good healthy Nutrition?

2009-08-24T06:35:00.000-07:00

1. Good low GI carbohydrates give you sustained energy

2. Good proteins ensure growth and repair of your muscles and other body tissue e.g. healthy skin, hair and nails, plus is important in slowing down the release of your carbohydrates

3. Good fats (found in fish, olive oil, seeds, nuts) are a source of energy and important in the absorption of some vitamins. Fat also helps to give the skin a healthy glow, plus is important in slowing down the release of your carbohydrates

4. The right ratios for each meal eaten every 3-4 hours will fill your cells with high quality nutrients and your body will respond with high energy!

5. The right ratio will ensure you do not increase your body fat/weight, plus will help you to use fat for fuel. In addition the right ratio will stop the cravings for high sugar and saturated fat foods.

Find out more about our Nutrition Workshop

energiseYou launches a new employee wellbeing service, the “energiseYou Nutrition Workshop”

2009-08-07T04:43:00.000-07:00

About our Nutrition Workshops
Good nutrition is vital for the energy and performance of your employees, our stimulating and interactive two hour Nutrition workshop is designed to coach your employees into making positive changes to their eating and drinking habits. The information is easy to understand, simple to implement and produces results!

Our Nutrition workshop caters for 24 employees and costs just £480, that’s just £20 per employee; it’s a small price to pay for an energised and productive workforce!

Plus we have a Money Back Guarantee, you can’t lose!! If your team doesn’t give great feedback on the workshop you don’t pay!

Why energiseYou Nutrition Workshops
- Personal Trainers and Nutritionists often make nutrition too technical
- Diets are often unhealthy, rarely give you high energy and generally are impossible to maintain
- It’s easy to get overloaded with information – and end up doing nothing!
- The information in the energiseYou Nutrition workshop is based on how the body actually works, it's easy to understand, simple to implement and gets results!

Top Tips to keep your staff Happy @ Work

2009-07-28T01:08:00.000-07:00

energiseYou are the Leading Experts in Employee Wellbeing & Motivation for the UK’s most Progressive Companies.

Happy staff can give your business real financial benefits: high staff engagement, motivation, productivity, staff retention, and low absenteeism.

Check out these top tips on getting the most out of your workforce.
The bi-monthly team meeting
This is a great habit to get into. Every two months, celebrate your company's superstars. Encourage each team member to come up with three business successes they or their team mates have achieved and get these successes up on a flip chart. Really shout about them! This process is great for team morale and creates a real feel-good factor.
As well as celebrating the past two month’s successes, re-clarify your company’s vision and the next two months' objectives. You will be amazed at how many of your employees need constantly reminding of the company vision and the key business targets.
Employee Wellbeing
Healthy, energised staff = happy, productive staff.
Here are just some of the ways to improve the health & energy of your workforce!
A good quality Workstation Assessment (remember most of us spend 30+ hours a week @ a computer
Fruit for the office
Subsidised gym membership
Health and wellbeing seminars
A monthly email sent to staff with interesting top health tips.
Organise a day a month of Office Massages for your staff

Reward exceptional performance
Be inventive and reward with experiences, not money. Employees will associate the great experience with recognition for their work and this process can create a strong positive pattern for future performance.
For example, a dinner for two at a great restaurant; a 30-minute back massage at work; a weekend in Paris; a day in a hot air balloon; or a day driving a sports car around a racetrack.
Encourage a good work/life balance
Where possible be flexible with your employees working hours and provide staff with a range of options to suit their individual needs. Whether it's four-day work weeks, working from home on occasions, start late/finish late, start early/finish early or even sabbaticals for long-serving staff.

Money back Guarantees

2009-07-14T08:24:00.000-07:00

At energiseYou we don’t just say we deliver a great service to our clients, we promise!! We have a Money Back Guarantee on all our employee wellbeing services, we pride ourselves on excellent customer service and if our clients are not completely satisfied with our service we won’t charge you a thing.

A day in the life of an energiseYou DSE Workstation Assessment Assessor

2009-07-10T02:04:00.000-07:00

For our first issue of the monthly energiseYou Newsletter David Morgan Jones has written an article on his experiences at one of the energiseYou DSE workstation assessments clients.

Parachuting into an office and whizzing round an office of desk workers and assessing their workstation needs giving a personalised service. My first Workstation Assessment within this client was; a high level manager who was experiencing constant lower back pain, RSI in his left shoulder and wrist plus various medical issues. While observing the employee at his desk it became obvious very quickly how crooked he sat in a chair, which had probably not been adjusted since its testing at the factory! This crookedness was encouraged by the incorrect positioning of his desk equipment and subsequently a tendency to lean heavily on his left elbow. I adjusted the chair to maximise support and educated the employee on best posture. I caught up with this employee a few weeks after, he thanked me for my help since he was now experiencing significantly less back & shoulder pain, all from a few simple and logical changes. This gave me a real sense of achievement and proved how effective and valuable a personalised DSE workstation assessments can be to individuals and companies. As a practitioner I often see the same workstation related symptoms in my clients. DSE workstation assessments are a fantastic way to help get to the root cause of much of these symptoms. Also since companies are legally obliged to provide DSE Workstation Assessments for their staff, this should mean more employees within more companies can benefit from this great service, and employee wellbeing will improve.

David Morgan-Jones

energiseYou launches a new Health and Safety consulting service

2009-06-26T03:26:00.000-07:00

The service includes; a full Health and Safety Audit and jargon free action plan to ensure companies comply with all the latest Health and Safety relations.

Oliver Gray, managing director, energiseYou, comments:
“Good Health and Safety practice is the foundation of good employee wellbeing. Many SMEs find Health and Safety a complicated mine field. Our new service has been launched to support SMEs, and make Health and Safety straight forward. Our simple audit and jargon free action plan walks the company through the actions needed to comply with the latest Health and Safety regulations.”

“Our thinking behind launching this new service to the corporate market, was to provide a comprehensive expert service to SMEs to ensure they adhere to the latest Health & Safety regulations. Companies already have enough pressures, especially in the current economic climate, so we aim to alleviate one essential pressure with this new service. We are the experts in workplace Health and Safety, so companies don’t have to be.”

Health & Safety offences act 2008

2009-06-16T04:23:00.000-07:00

Employee wellbeing starts with good basic Health and safety, which means ensuring your company, is complying with all the health and safety regulations.

Many companies are not complying with basic health and safety regulations, and consequently, the new health and safety offences act 2008 came into force 16th Jan 2009, this act raises the maximum penalties that can be imposed for breeching health & safety regulations in the lower courts from £5,000 to £20,000 and the range of offences for which an individual can be imprisoned has also been broadened.

An example of health & safety regulations that is often missed within companies is ensuring all staff have a DSE Workstation Assessment, The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations came into force on 1st January 1993. They seek to protect the health of workers by reducing risks from sitting at a computer for long periods, by ensuring good posture and correct workstation set up.

How can Workstation Assessments help your business?

1. Comply with health & safety regulations
2. Improve staff focus and productivity
3. Improve staff motivation fast, at a low cost
4. Improve posture and reduce back problems, shoulder tension & RSI

Win a free day of massages for your team

2009-05-27T09:23:00.000-07:00

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Enter our competition to win a free day of On Site Chair Massages sessions for your team, to enter click here >>

Benefits of On-Site Chair Massage

Improve productivity and maximise your profits
Create a great workplace & stay ahead of your competition
Improve staff motivation & retention
Reduce your costs related to staff turnover
Reduce absence related to poor health

About On-Site Chair Massage
On-Site Chair Massage is a fully clothed massage while seated in a specially designed chair. The massage practitioner focuses on your, neck, shoulders, back, arms and hands. On-Site Chair Massage can be adapted for 10, 15, 20 or 30 minute sessions and leaves the employee feeling energised.

On Site Chair Massage Client Testimonial

2009-05-15T02:44:00.000-07:00

We introduced energiseYou On-Site Chair Massage as a new employee benefit to help improve employee wellbeing. Everyone at eBay works hard and spends most of their time behind a computer. At eBay the service has made an excellent impact on reducing workplace stress, and keeping morale and motivation high, staff love it!
Michelle Pitt - eBay HR Manager

Is your company aspiring to be a Sunday Times top 100 best company to work for?

2009-05-11T08:52:00.000-07:00

Employee wellbeing is one of the 8 criteria to make it into the Sunday Times top 100 best companies listing. The 2009 top 100 list was recently announced and energiseYou was proud to sponsor the Sunday Times top 100 best companies special award for wellbeing, which this year went to www.instantoffices.com

All the Sunday Times top 100 best companies are taking a pro-active approach to employee wellbeing, this award is given to the best of the best within the top 100 listing.

For information on how to enter the 2010 Sunday Times Top 100 Best to work for visit www.bestcompanies.co.uk

energiseYou provides employee wellbeing services including: On Site Chair Massage, Health & Safety Consultants, DSE Workstation Assessments, Wellbeing Seminars, Office Yoga & In House Corporate Running Clubs.

A free guide to healthy workstation practices

2009-04-24T03:16:00.000-07:00

To help keep your employees healthy at their workstations, we would like to give you our free guide to healthy workstation practices.

This guide can be used to help educate your employees on how to stay healthy at their workstations, and can be an extra reminder for employees after their workstation assessments.

Click here for your free guide to healthy workstation practices >>

Workstation Assessments are a legal health & Safety requirement. The Health & Safety regulations state that every company must give every employee (who uses a computer daily for an hour or more) a workstation assessment.

For more information on the energiseYou Workstation Assessments service please contact us on 0870 167 7771 or contactus@energiseyou.com

Welcome to our energiseYou blog!

2009-04-17T08:11:00.001-07:00

The energiseYou blog is updated monthly with all the latest employee wellbeing news, views and healthy tips.

The energiseYou team is passionate about health and wellbeing, and we hope that our blog can inspire you to improve the health wellbeing and motivation of your employees.

Here are a few facts about employee wellbeing;

Global research at the end of last year, by HR and benefits consulting firm Buck Consultants, revealed that workplace wellness strategies are rapidly growing in popularity across the globe. In Europe, the number of organisations that have implemented an employee wellbeing programme has doubled to 40% in the last year

This year's Sunday Times Best Companies list, 95% of organisations in the top 20 big firms have a wellbeing programme in place, as well as 88% of medium-sized companies

Employee wellbeing programme can help organisations to improve their profits by; improving productivity, staff engagement & retention and well as helping to reduce absence caused by ill health. All in all a health motivated workforce will perform better and keep the business one step ahead of its competitors.