{"id":7653,"date":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/designing-for-health-strategies-to-encourage-wellness-in-the-workplace-contract-design\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:00:00","slug":"designing-for-health-strategies-to-encourage-wellness-in-the-workplace-contract-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/designing-for-health-strategies-to-encourage-wellness-in-the-workplace-contract-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Health: Strategies to Encourage Wellness in the Workplace | Contract Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your office thinking about a redesign or moving offices? Incorporating wellness into your design can help motivate employees to participate &#8211; knowingly or unknowingly. For example, ensuring there is adequate sunlight contributes to positive effects ranging from visual comfort to improved sleep quality. \u00a0Incorporating standing desks may help employees to remain a bit more active, rather than sitting in the same location for hours every day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.contractdesign.com\/practice\/healthcare\/designing-health-strategies-encourage-wellness-workplace\/\">Designing for Health: Strategies to Encourage Wellness in the Workplace | Contract Design<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Today, with individuals spending on average over 40 hours a week at work, health and wellness are taking center stage. Labor and healthcare spending also comprise the bulk of operating expenses-making happy and healthy employees a smart investment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your office thinking about a redesign or moving offices? Incorporating wellness into your design can help motivate employees to participate &#8211; knowingly or unknowingly. For example, ensuring there is adequate sunlight contributes to positive effects ranging from visual comfort to improved sleep quality. \u00a0Incorporating standing desks may help employees to remain a bit more active, rather than sitting in the same location for hours every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.contractdesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/UPCHT-Cafe-PerkinsWill-Rendering-e1505327129585.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,145,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-7653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-productivity","10":"tag-wellbeing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}