Successful organizations are discovering a new strategy for gaining an emotional, financial, and competitive advantage: employee wellbeing. That's because employee wellbeing has a direct and significant impact on the bottom line.

Whether you manage a few people, lead a large group, or run an entire organization, you are already in the business of managing employee wellbeing.

• Every day, in most organizations, there are employees who don't show up, don't give their best effort, erode organizational productivity, and cost their employers millions of dollars because of poor mental and physical health.
• Conversely, there are employees who engage their colleagues and customers, generate new ideas, and save their employers thousands of dollars in healthcare costs.

The wellbeing of your workers has a direct impact, for better or worse, on your organization's bottom line.

Until recently, the wellbeing of your employees could not be measured, managed, or quantified. Gallup now makes it possible to determine how the wellbeing of your company's workforce affects your organization's financial performance.

The Five Essential Elements

Gallup scientists have explored the demands of a life well-lived for more than 50 years. More recently, Gallup -- in partnership with leading economists, psychologists, sociologists, physicians, and other acclaimed scientists -- began to explore the impact of wellbeing on companies and their financial performance. We mined data from more than 150 countries and areas around the world, studying the common elements that best differentiate lives that are spent thriving from those that are spent struggling or suffering.

From the research, five distinct elements of wellbeing emerged. These elements represent actionable areas that can be leveraged to improve wellbeing:

• Career Wellbeing: how you occupy your time and liking what you do each day
• Social Wellbeing: having strong relationships and love in your life
• Financial Wellbeing: effectively managing your economic life to reduce stress and increase security
• Physical Wellbeing: having good health and enough energy to get things done on a daily basis
• Community Wellbeing: the sense of engagement and involvement you have with the area where you live

Wellbeing Tools and Resources

Gallup offers our clients an effective system for managing and improving individual and organizational wellbeing. Our online portal, which integrates wellbeing assessment tools with information and support resources, gives individual users the power to understand, track, and improve their wellbeing: the Wellbeing Finder.

To construct this comprehensive measure of individual wellbeing, Gallup designed an assessment composed of the best questions we have asked over the last 50 years. We tested hundreds of questions across countries, languages, and vastly different life situations.

Upon taking the Wellbeing Finder, participants receive access to an account where their detailed results are shared. The site helps an individual identify areas of strength -- and areas where there is opportunity for growth. It also provides tools and resources to manage and improve wellbeing over time.

Our Value

The Benefits of Gallup's Wellbeing Platform

• provides improvement in individual accountability and ownership for personal health and wellbeing, which can lead to reduced healthcare costs
• aligns disparate efforts toward meaningful, common objectives and goals
• includes ongoing tracking overall and in each Wellbeing dimension: Career, Social, Financial, Physical, and Community
• includes interventions to help team members improve overall wellbeing
• boosts the usage of existing offerings, such as corporate wellness programs
• links to business metrics such as productivity
• applies to the cost drivers at the team member and dependent level

For more information about Gallup solutions for optimizing the wellbeing of your workforce, download the brochure The Economics of Wellbeing (PDF) or contact us.