World wellbeing week takes place this week from 27th
June to 1st July 2022 and provides the opportunity to
promote awareness of the wide-ranging aspects of wellbeing.
'Wellbeing', specifically in relation to the workplace,
was one of the buzzwords to come out of the pandemic, at a time
where working practices and the employer-employee relationship
changed dramatically. Now, with both the right to disconnect and
the cost of living crisis topical issues, it is no surprise that
wellbeing is still very much on the agenda.
Wellbeing is expansive
Previously, there was a tendency to view wellbeing within the
narrow parameters of physical and mental wellbeing, addressed by
fruit baskets in the office and the offer of yoga at lunch. It is
now accepted that rather than a narrow interpretation, wellbeing in
fact encapsulates a wide range of areas including social,
emotional, financial, digital, career, community and environmental
wellbeing. Spearheaded in part by the
