Employee Wellbeing Metrics to Track After the Pandemic

21 of October, 2022

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business world has undergone quite a few changes. A lot has had to change to fit the evolving world left in the wake of the pandemic. One of the biggest of these changes is employee wellbeing metrics and what to look out for after the covid pandemic.

In today’s world, metrics used to track employee wellness are quite different from those used in the pre-covid world. Below are some of the metrics to track in this post-covid world and why you should be tracking them.

4 Employee Metrics to Track in a Post Covid World

Employee Physical Health

In the pre-covid world, employee physical health was already important. Healthy employees are more productive and more productive employees make an organization more successful. In our world today though, it is even more important to track employees’ physical health. 

Physically healthy employees are less at risk of getting infected than physically unhealthy ones. This means the more physically healthy your employees are, the less likely they are to contact the virus.

Organizations that require their employees to turn up to work at a physical location are in greater need of this metric. Moreover, this is no longer a matter of choice but a matter of compliance in various countries in the world, including the US.

Tracking your employees’ physical health helps you identify those employees with a higher chance of getting infected. It also makes monitoring them for any sign of infections much easier.

Employee Risk of Exposure

Some people would tell you this is the most important metric to track in a post-covid world. Monitoring your employees’ risk of exposure helps you create a safer work environment in a post covid world. By knowing which employees are more likely to contract the virus, you know which employees warrant isolation and which don’t.

When tracking employee risk of exposure, consider employee movements, their locations (are they covid hotspots?), and things like that.

Employee Risk of Workplace Stress/Isolation

If there is one thing the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown thought us, it’s that remote work is actually pretty effective. Or at least, it can be when done right. With most organizations coming to incorporate remote work as an option, it is important to consider each employee’s risk of workplace stress and their risk of isolation.

By tracking this metric, HR can better determine which employees would be better suited to work from home and which employees are better off working in a physical office.

Effectiveness of Remote Work For Specific Roles

Remote work might have been a life-saver for businesses and employees alike during the pandemic, but this doesn’t mean it is a perfect system. Some roles are just impossible to fill remotely and employees need to be physically present for them. It is important to track this metric in a post covid world when determining how to plan the organization’s structure.

Conclusion

Tracking employee wellbeing metrics is an important task of HR. Not only does it ensure that the workplace environment is safe for employees and employers alike, it also ensures that the organization is in compliance with state and federal laws.

Need help tracking your employee wellbeing in a post covid world? With Sesame’s HR Software, you can send surveys to your employees and track their wellbeing.