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Choosing employee wellness software for your organization can be hard. We curated 10 of the best employee wellness tools for you to consider in 2022.
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Employee wellness has moved from a secondary concern to an absolute priority in modern workplaces.
Given that employees spend an average of one-third of their lives at work, this is a welcome change—and one that comes with lots of other benefits too.
But for people-first companies, investing in employee wellness can leave you with a big question mark. One big reason for that is that there are so many different ways to invest in wellness. If you’re looking for software to help increase employee wellness, you’re stuck sifting through the countless options of what is now a half-billion-dollar industry.
If you’re leading People Ops and finding the right software for your employee wellness strategy feels is overwhelming, fret not! We’ve gathered intel on the 10 best employee wellness software options available to you in 2022 to make choosing the right tool easy.
The list below includes many different types of software, all with different use cases and features. Many organizations will combine several of these to create the desired wellness effect in their workplace. The right combination of wellness software can help you hit the sweet spot to keep employees healthy and engaged for the long haul.
If you’ve been asked this question by a senior leader—or even yourself— it may surprise you that employee wellness programs have a significant return on investment.
They create lots of positive (and cost-saving) impacts in the workplace, including:
Investing in employee wellbeing is worth every penny. But ultimately, the best reason to invest in employee wellness is that your employees deserve it. They work hard to make your company great, and they’re worth taking care of.
Purpose: Emotional daily check-ins, track and prevent team burnout, improve employee wellbeing, and encourage team building.
Channels: Slack integration and web dashboard.
Kona is a well-being and burnout platform for people-first teams. The Slack integration sends a daily emotional question to every team member — “how are you feeling?”
This daily interaction helps teammates bond, improves teamwide vulnerability and trust, provides managers with context as to how their direct reports approach work and gives organizations a bird’s-eye view into their employee's level of burnout.
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Purpose: Allows employees to engage in challenges, educational content, and unique wellbeing experiences.
Channels: App and web, with integrations to other fitness and health apps.
Wellable is a corporate wellness platform that promotes healthy behaviors, enhances company culture, and increases productivity. It’s all-in-one wellbeing hub allows you to create a customized wellness program that addresses your organization’s specific goals and objectives.
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Purpose: Helps you appreciate your team by sending snack-based care packages to your employees at home or the office.
Channels: Web-based.
Caroo is an online curation and delivery service that makes corporate gift-giving easy. It helps you recognize employees and improve employee wellness without the hassle of sifting through countless vendors to find the perfect gift.
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Purpose: Provides experienced-based rewards and incentives to employees.
Channels: Web-based with many integration options.
Blueboard is a recognition platform powered by hand-curated experiences and personalized concierge services. Instead of thanking your high-performing team member with a gift card, you can send them out to enjoy an unforgettable experience of their choosing.
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Purpose: Promotes mindfulness and mental health through offering meditation, stress relief exercises, focus routines, and more.
Channels: Mobile app.
Headspace for Work is a mobile app loaded with meditation routines and mindfulness exercises geared toward helping lower stress, increase focus, and improve teamwork. It’s designed to encourage mental well-being on the go. It also includes features for easy enterprise management, including reporting, and insights on your team’s engagement.
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Purpose: Improves employee well-being by reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep habits, and fostering mindfulness.
Channels: Mobile app.
Calm is an award-winning mindfulness app that features calming exercises, breathing techniques, and even celebrity-read bedtime stories.
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Purpose: Provides personalized mental health support to your workforce on a single platform.
Channels: App and web.
Modern Health is a mental well-being platform providing therapy, coaching, and more. Their services are based on personalized employee assessments, giving a truly customized approach to mental wellbeing.
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Purpose: Provides instant access to mental health care, from self-guided programs to coaching to therapy and medication management.
Channels: App and web-based.
Lyra is an employer-offered mental health service offering both online and in-person care. They work exclusively with providers who use evidence-based treatments and clinically-validated mental health assessments.
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Purpose: Helps build resilience into your workforce through proactive mental health training.
Channels: App and web.
Headversity is an employee wellness platform that helps your organization get ahead of mental health issues. By focusing on preventative care and training, Headversity helps increase resilience and equip your team members to cope with life’s stressors and challenges.
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Purpose: Encourages users to care more about their health and wellbeing through gamification and community engagement.
Channels: App and web.
Sprout At Work is a workplace wellness platform designed to improve the health and happiness of your workforce. Their platform helps gamify wellness to engage employees with their personal health goals and their jobs.
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Ten options may still feel like a lot when it comes to choosing the right employee wellness software for your organization. So how can you ensure you’re making a choice you’ll be happy with?
One recommendation is to compare your company values with the purpose and features of each software. For example, if you’re a people-first company that values empathy and emotional health in the workplace, Kona could be the right fit because of its deliberately transparent emotional health check-ins that invite vulnerability and trust.
You’ll also want to consider your existing software tools and how new additions will complement them.
Remember: employee wellness is an investment. Putting in the work to find the right software now will help keep your organization healthy for years into the future.
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Lawrence uses his decade of customer experience leadership to create content for B2B SaaS companies that love their customers. He writes on a broad range of topics, all with the aim of helping human-centered companies attract the right customers and empower them to be successful.
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