10 Hot Employee Wellbeing Initiatives to Try in 2025

10 Hot Employee Wellbeing Initiatives to Try in 2025

If your team’s energy has taken a hit lately (thanks, return-to-office growing pains), this is a great time to refresh your benefits package with their engagement and wellbeing in mind. To help you get started, we put together a list of 10 hot employee wellbeing initiatives we’ve seen during our recent visits to offices across the country.  Some of these

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Conventional vs. Organic Fresh Fruit Delivery: What’s Right for Your Office?

Conventional vs. Organic Fresh Fruit Delivery: What’s Right for Your Office?

Fresh fruit delivery for the office just makes sense. Studies show that eating whole fruits can bring employees all kinds of health benefits, from a lower risk of illness (including heart disease, depression, and anxiety) to increased brainpower and higher productivity. The real challenge is picking the right kind of fruit for your team—should you opt for organic fresh fruit

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Back in Office? 6 Ways to Reignite Culture and Engagement

Back in Office? 6 Ways to Reignite Culture and Engagement

After years of remote and hybrid setups, many organizations are finalizing (or re-finalizing) their return-to-office (RTO) plans with productivity, culture, and engagement in mind. These new norms are unfolding at a time when employees have grown accustomed to flexible hours, robust wellness perks, and—let’s be honest—wearing pajama pants during Zoom calls. According to Gallup, employees will expect (and demand) even

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How to Keep Employees Happy: A Guide for HR & Office Managers

Working in HR or office management can feel a little bit like trying to read the minds of the employees around you. What do they actually want? What would boost their wellbeing? Make them smile? Keep them productive? You can’t really read your coworkers’ thoughts (at least not yet—someone is probably working on that) but there is a place you

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3 Reasons Wellness Benefits Make Return to Office Easier

The buzz about return to office (RTO) is fading, but there are still plenty of companies quietly planning to bring their employees back to work in person. In September 2024, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy asked his team to be back at work five days a week starting in January 2025—and he’s not alone.  According to a recent ResumeTemplates survey of

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Why Employee Appreciation Gifts Matter in 2024

If your company is tightening its budget, it can be tempting to cross employee appreciation gifts off the to-do list. But those gifts might matter more to your team (and your bottom line) than you think. In the spring of 2024, Gallup and Workhuman surveyed over 4,400 working adults across the country and found that only 22% of employees feel

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Designing an Office Break Room? Focus on the Basics

Here’s a riddle for you: I have the power to make your employees more productive, less stressed, and happier with their work. What am I?  If you guessed “the office break room”—maybe because the title of this article gave it away—then you’re right! A 2023 survey of 10,000 workers found that people who take breaks during the workday are:  62%

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Are Your Employees Hoarding the Work Snacks? Try This

“People are hoarding the fruit and snacks!” a client told me as we toured their break room. “I saw someone walk away with a handful—more than they could eat in a day—and stash them in their desk drawer.” This is more common than you might think, and sometimes even happens in our own office. After all, it’s human nature: you’re

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‘Structure’ Is the Magic Word: Employee Mental Health Tips

In 2013, I signed up for a weekly mediation class at the San Francisco Zen Center on a whim. I’m still not a regular meditator but it was a valuable and important class for me. The part that I remember best actually isn’t the meditation lessons. It’s the Q&A session that we had with our teachers on the very last

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The Ultimate Office Snack Box Guide

Whether you’re already a FruitGuys customer or just scoping out our selection of office snacks, you might have wondered how we choose the bars, bites, jerkies, and more that end up in our snack delivery boxes. How do we decide which brands make the cut? Are there rules? And what exactly comes in a FruitGuys snack box? The short answer

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5 Reasons Customers Love Our Office Snacks (In Their Words!)

There are dozens of places to source office snacks—so why choose snack delivery from The FruitGuys? Our customers have shared a lot of thoughts on this over the years, so we rounded up a few of the reasons they love our Thoughtful Snack Boxes, in their own words.  Variety in Every Box “I love the variety of snacks in each

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7 Times a Year to Give Employee Appreciation Gifts

Do you remember what it felt like as a kid to find presents waiting for you on a holiday morning? As a business owner or manager, it’s in your power to give that feeling to your employees. A simple employee appreciation gift can make them feel loved, valued, and cared for—and you don’t have to wait until the next holiday

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The Data Is In: Snack Breaks Boost Productivity at Work

What if you could increase your employees’ productivity at work by 33%—just by asking them to work less? That sounds counterintuitive, but it’s exactly what a Slack survey of 10,000 workers found in December 2023. Yes, Less Work = More Productivity The surveyors discovered several surprising statistics. People who take breaks during the workday to have a snack, take a

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Return to Office Best Practices for Happy Employees

This summer, a survey of 1,000 company leaders found 90% of them are planning a return to office in 2024. That will probably be a challenge, considering 97% of currently remote employees hope to work remotely at least part-time for the rest of their careers, according to a Buffer survey.  If your company is planning a return to office (RTO)

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Return to Office? Choose the Best Healthy Office Snacks

Did you know that the snacks your coworkers eat affect their work quality and efficiency? Studies show that smart food choices directly correlate with how productive, engaged, and creative people are. So, if your company is planning a return to office soon, it makes sense to stock your break room with healthy office snacks that will keep your team in

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Return to Office Tips: 10 Ways to Engage Employees With Food

To succeed with your return to office (RTO) efforts, you need to offer employees experiences they can’t get at home. Identifying those missing pieces on your own can be tricky—but luckily, a recent survey has some key insights. According to a 2023 Buffer survey of 3,000 remote workers: Nearly 45% of workers struggle with loneliness, isolation, and/or difficulties collaborating and

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