WBS Earns Working Well’s Platinum Recognition for its Wellness Culture

Whole Building Systems is recognized by Working Well for achieving Platinum status in wellness culture for meeting best practice standards in workplace wellbeing. The Platinum recognition is awarded to organizations that provide employees with a healthy and supportive culture to promote optimal wellbeing. 

To receive this recognition, Whole Building Systems includes wellness as a key tactic in their strategic plan and has implemented a formal wellness strategic plan. In addition, they have a network of wellness champions who advocate for wellness initiatives and also implemented policies to provide paid time and flexible work hours for employees to participate in wellness activities throughout the work day. These are among several evidence-based components for a successful wellness culture within the workplace. 

Working Well helps employers develop a strategic plan to impact employee health and productivity by focusing on policy, systems and environmental changes, which are often low or no cost. Working Well aims to help employers create a sustainable culture of wellbeing by using effective, evidence-based best practices to create healthy work environments.

Research demonstrates that employees performing at optimal health can have a major impact on an employer’s bottom line by contributing to lower health care costs, less absenteeism, higher productivity, and improved morale. Healthy employees perform better and are more productive and more engaged than their unhealthy peers. 

“Whole Building Systems recognizes there’s a lot more to creating a culture of wellbeing than just offering wellness programming but by also supporting their employees through policies and formal practices,” comments Jen Wright, Working Well Program Director. “WBS understands that to be successful in motivating lifestyle change, the workplace must be a supportive culture.”

For information on how to improve your worksite’s environment to better support employee wellbeing, contact Emily O’Sullivan, Working Well Program Manager, at 803.454.6969 or eosullivan@scha.org. 

Working Well was founded through the support of The Duke Endowment and is managed by the South Carolina Hospital Association. Working Well is an effort to improve population health across the state of South Carolina by establishing cultures of employee wellbeing where the healthy choice is the easy choice.