The intended vitality programmes will initially focus on raising awareness about lifestyle, personal vitality/efficiency and long-term employability. This will spur employees to act and take responsibility for their own development and employability. Employees are given the choice and opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities promoting sustainable employability and vitality. This includes the following activities:
- Training to raise awareness
- Health checks, workshops, sports programmes
- Assigning coaches to (older) employees in order to keep them in employment for a longer period of time
- Fitness & Food lifestyle programme
- Research into and advice about sustainable employability
- Setting up a personal action plan in consultation with the coach
- Voluntary periodic health check
- The Coping with Flexible Hours workshop
- The Getting Enough Sleep workshop
- The Work-Life Balance workshop
Participation in the above activities is always voluntary. Management, including executive management, will undergo a tailored programme, which will enable them to become aware of their own vitality and, moreover, to better guide and manage their own employees with regard to vitality.
Objectives
For employees, the programme should lead to greater independence, productivity, creativity, flexibility, development/employability, workability, greater involvement, more inspiration and better quality. For organisations, it should lead to a greater contribution to the desired corporate culture, a better working environment and better collaboration and communication. Further results include: a better image on the labour market, the perception that the company has become more sustainable, congeniality, higher and better turnover and services, financial benefits, less absenteeism and less reliance on benefits awarded under WIA/WGA (the Dutch Work and Income according to Capacity for Work Act and the Dutch Return to Work for Partially Incapacitated Workers Act).