{"id":1593,"date":"2023-03-28T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biworldwide.com\/eu\/our-work\/blog\/why-your-employee-experience-is-only-as-good-as-your-social-health\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:50:35","slug":"why-your-employee-experience-is-only-as-good-as-your-social-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biworldwide.com\/eu\/our-work\/blog\/why-your-employee-experience-is-only-as-good-as-your-social-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your employee experience is only as good as your social health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Find out how building and maintaining relationships within the workplace is vital, now more than ever, and how a cup of coffee could be what you need to ensure engagement in your workplace. Did someone say Fika?<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding the profound significance of social health is key in an era where effective collaboration and employee wellbeing are paramount in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social health goes beyond physical and mental wellbeing \u2013 it’s about building a strong connection and fostering a thriving environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidst this, understanding the\u00a0new rules for engagement<\/a>\u00a0is paramount. More than ever, effective management is intricately linked to the understanding of individual uniqueness – recognising employees’ abilities, aspirations, and optimal working methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, we discuss what we mean by social health, and how prioritising social health in the workplace aligns with the new rules of engagement, empowers teams, and gives work meaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What is social health?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is social health important in the workplace?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Examples of social health in the workplace<\/strong><\/a>

How employers can improve social health<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

What’s social health?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The very definition of social health is the ability to interact and form meaningful relationships with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But social health is more than just a term, it’s the glue that binds a team together; promoting collaboration, boosting productivity, and contributing to overall wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One prominent champion of social health, Julia Hobsbawm, goes even further to describe social health as how we connect better and more meaningfully to raise our game, our self-esteem, and our trust in ourselves and what we can achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobsbawm sees knowledge, networks, and time as social health\u2019s equivalent to exercise, nutrition, and sleep. It’s a triumvirate she refers to as the K.N.O.T \u2013 the functional flow of Knowledge and Networks, happening at the right Time, intended to address drowning in \u2018infobesity\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some social health examples include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n