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What is the Workplace Wellness Toolkit?
The Workplace Wellness Toolkit includes an assessment tool, a customized report with recommended strategies to promote health as well as step-by-step implementation resources, and interactive rooms to illustrate some behavioral design strategies in a small business setting.
Why is behavioral design for workplaces important?
- Enhance physical health of employees
- Foster healthy behaviors such as physical activity and healthy eating
- Promote social cohesion among employees
- Increase enjoyment and productivity in work environment
Who can use this toolkit?
- Architects
- Interior designers
- Small business owners or staff members (e.g., CEO, wellness coordinators, HR staff) who make decisions about workplace health
What is included in the toolkit?
- Online assessment tool to be completed collaboratively by an architect/designer and business owner. The assessment will gather information about the features and functions of a business, as well as existing workplace wellness opportunities. Upon submission of the assessment, a customized report will be generated.
- Customized report with recommended behavioral design strategies. Behavioral design strategies include changes to the physical space of the work environment, information available, programs, and policies.
- Implementation resources including interactive rooms illustrated with behavioral design strategies and other resources and ideas to help visualize how to put put recommendations into practice.
How does someone use this toolkit?
Architects and/or interior designers share the toolkit with business owner clients and ask clients to complete the assessment tool. Architects and/or interior designers will work alongside the client to review the report recommendations and the implementation resources and make decisions on how to implement design changes in their workplaces. Business owners can also access and use the toolkit on their own if desired.
How was the toolkit developed?
Experts in business, workplace wellness, architecture, and interior design assisted with the development of the toolkit.