17 organizations receive the "Friendly Work Space" label

Sam Conniff showed how the uncertainty of New Work can be used as an opportunity and a challenge. "Burnout is at an all time high, resilience is at an all time low and our intolerance of uncertainty is the reason for all this. But uncertainty can be a great motivator. We just need to know how to use it," says Conniff. The international keynote speaker and "Uncertainty Expert" encouraged attendees to break conventional rules in the modern business world in order to achieve creative solutions and change. "Uncertainty Experts" is a ground-breaking piece of research in collaboration with leading researchers from UCL's Department of Neuroscience. In his keynote, Sam Conniff gave insights into the concept of uncertainty tolerance and how it can be used to foster creativity, empathy, engagement, collaboration and decision-making.

Companies also need creativity, empathy and commitment in order to focus on health-promoting working conditions. Since 2009, they have been able to be awarded the "Friendly Work Space" label by Health Promotion Switzerland. Currently, 106 organizations with around 220,000 employees in Switzerland and Liechtenstein have been awarded the label.

With the "Friendly Work Space" label, organizations systematically develop occupational health management (OHM) along six quality criteria. This enables them to sustainably increase employee motivation and performance, reduce operating costs and strengthen their competitiveness as attractive employers in the long term. The longer an organization carries and internalizes the label, the more effective the benefits of occupational health management will be.

17 new and 17 re-awarded organizations

Health Promotion Switzerland awards the "Friendly Work Space" label to 17 companies for the first time in 2023 and for a period of 3 years. In addition, this year 17 current organizations successfully underwent the reassessment after 3 years.

The following companies were honored in 2023:

Label helps to raise management awareness and promote health

"The BGM criteria of "Friendly Work Space" support companies in systematically implementing health management. We award the label to companies that succeed in systematically implementing the quality criteria," explains Prof. Dr. Thomas Mattig, Director of Health Promotion Switzerland. An evaluation carried out by the BASS office between May 2018 and February 2020 confirmed the impact of the label: Management awareness in the area of employee health, as well as the anchoring and systematic implementation of OHM, improve significantly from one certification to the next.

The structure of BGM is based on 6 quality criteria

The way in which health management is implemented in each organization is individual. This is based on six quality criteria of "Friendly Work Space", which make the factors influencing the health of employees tangible and assessable. If independent assessors confirm that all six criteria are met, the organization receives the "Friendly Work Space" label for 3 years. The BGM criteria of "Friendly Work Space" are supported by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH).

Companies that have already been awarded the label can be re-certified every three years.

Source: www.gesundheitsfoerderung.ch