HR PILLAR: Health and Wellness
Post-pandemic Wellness Challenges:
An HR Perspective
By Madelein Hendrick
– MD, HR Company Solutions
H
uman Resource professionals are, by and large, driven by
their passion for people. When embarking on this profession one knows that having the best for our employees is always at the forefront as we navigate through regulations and company culture. For many organisations the Human Resource function was a formality to ensure compliance with the regulations put forward by governing bodies and bargaining councils; but since the pandemic I believe there has been a shift in approach and this has given us the opportunity to dig deeper into the health and wellness of the employees of our organisations. The pressure that HR departments have faced in establishing policies and strategies which affect the real wellbeing of our employees during COVID has been enormous.
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Creating and implementing
We have seen organisations
these policies - with little to no
adapt to working from home
guidelines of professionals who
options, to dividing workforces
have done this in the past - was
to create social distancing
challenging for many businesses
practices and many other
but as I continue to recruit HR
out-of-the-box ways to
professionals, I am delighted to
ensure optimal safety for our
see these skills now listed on their
employees.
resumes as an accomplishment they are proud of.
I applaud the hard work HR professionals have done when
What I am most fascinated about
I outline the above but sadly
seeing is how HR professionals
the battle is not won as many
have put the wellness of their
employees do not adhere to the
employees above everything else in
policies implemented for their
the business, including productivity,
own protection.
finance, and other crucial aspects as they simply had to keep the
The challenges that HR
health and wellness of their people
departments are facing as
as key to business survival.
we shift post pandemic:
