We know that when people are healthy and well, and living their life’s ‘purpose’, they can contribute more – whether that’s to their families, work or society.
Our Wellbeing Framework
Our Wellbeing Framework underpins everything we do to support our employees’ health and wellbeing. It is a segmented framework to support the individual wellbeing needs of our employees. It includes:
Purposeful
Identifying what really matters to us and connecting to that as much as possible in all we do.
Mental
Managing our mental choices and reactions to distractions, pressures, challenges, and adversity.
Emotional
Finding ways to feel positive and confidently face life's challenges.
Physical
Looking after our health, fitness, diet, sleep and energy levels so we approach challenges with zeal.
Bringing purpose to work
Our workshop, ‘Discover Your Purpose’, helps employees identify their purpose for a more fulfilling career and professional development.
This also helps our people deepen their engagement and optimism at work, thus improving overall wellness.
Breaking stigma around mental health
According to the World Health Organisation, nearly 10% of the world’s population is affected by mental health issues, and 15% of working-age adults live with a mental disorder. Nearly two-thirds of people who need treatment never seek help from a health professional due to stigma and discrimination. Depression and anxiety are estimated to cause US $1 trillion in lost productivity globally every year.
Our approach to breaking the stigma around mental health in our workplace includes:
Culture
We empower our workforce through education, raising awareness, addressing stigma, and normalising conversations around mental health.
Leadership
We raise awareness and boost mental health support through role-modelling.
Prevention
We provide teams and individuals with self-help tools, including expert information and lifelong learning.
Support
We seek to enable a strong foundation of all-around, all-pervasive access to mental health guidance while driving conversations about it.
Support one, support all
Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offers 24x7 support all days a year, in local languages, and can be accessed via call, text, or chat. It includes a range of options, such as access to counselling, mindfulness-based stress reduction courses, life coaching, financial wellbeing, and resilience training.
Prevention is the best cure
At HUL, our objective is to build psychologically strong, high-energy teams.
We have Mental Health Champions (MHC) within our organisation. They are a network of 800+ volunteer employees who extend support to colleagues in need. They act as first responders to their colleagues suffering from mental health issues and guide them to the appropriate resources.
Our MHCs are widespread, which allows for peer-to-peer mental health conversations while emphasising our ‘Team Energy’ approach.
Healthier U: A holistic approach to health
‘Healthier U’ is our flagship programme designed to empower employees to cultivate and sustain a healthier lifestyle. It is designed to help employees care for their physical, emotional, and mental health.
- Through Healthier U, we strive towards adding healthy years to the lives of our employees, thereby empowering them to realise their untapped potential.
- It involves understanding their motivations and attitude towards health, evaluating their medical profile, and strategising timely effective interventions such as specialist consultations and personalised sessions.
- Over 15,000 of our employees underwent health risk assessments in 2023. We also ensured theme-based health drives including onsite health checkups, celebrating World Mental Health Day and organising an onsite flu vaccination drive covering 3000+ employees.
