Healthy Places + Happy People = The Dynamic Workplace Experience

Employee well-being and productivity are at a critical juncture with nearly half of employees reporting burnout and global employee engagement at just 21%.

Productivity growth has also been stagnant for over a decade, compelling organizations to reassess what drives resilience and performance for their workforce.

Healthy Places + Happy People = The Dynamic Workplace Experience

Our whitepaper ‘Healthy places + happy people = the dynamic workplace experience’ evaluates the strong correlation between employee health, happiness, and business success. Exploring how, when combined, well designed workplaces and people centric services create better environments which support both performance and well-being.  

This whitepaper was created in collaboration with International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and SHAPE Global.

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Healthy workplaces

What makes a healthy workplace? Factors such as lighting, noise, food, water and clean air all have an impact. IWBI’s WELL Building Standard set the benchmark and case studies show getting these factors right can reduce sick leave as well as improve satisfaction and productivity.

Productive people

The human side of workplace experience is equally important. Happy workers are reported to be 13% more productive. Key drivers of this include job satisfaction, meeting culture, hybrid work practices, supportive leadership and, amongst younger generations, personalized development opportunities.

Sodexo brings it all together – space, people and service to create better working environments which support performance, well-being and growth as well as the ability to measure the effectiveness of this combination.  

Our Workplace Experience Index (WXI) gives people and operators meaningful insights to keep improving well-being and the work environment, while helping clients understand the level of experience being delivered across their sites.

The WXI tool combines IWBI’s environmental expertise with SHAPE’s well-being science and measures 41 drivers of well-being across the two dimensions Healthy Workplaces and Happy People, providing three key benefits:

  1. Personalized support for employees – confidential feedback, tailored reports, and actionable advice.
  2. Practical insights for Sodexo teams – scorecards and demographic data enable quick fixes and service improvements.
  3. Strategic guidance for employers – benchmarking, investment prioritization, and cost control through long-term well-being strategies.

The Index is designed to engage employees, empower managers, and deliver sustainable value to clients. 

Workplaces which put well-being first:

Our whitepaper ‘Healthy places + happy people = the dynamic workplace experience’ explores how well-designed workplaces and people centric services, when combined create better environments which support both performance and well-being.

 

Sodexo deliver’s dynamic workplace experiences that adapt in real time – through food, services and analytics - creating conditions where people thrive.

Key figures

IncrEase of productivity for Happy workers

13%

PERCENTAGE of employees reportING burnout, costing the global economy billions in lost productivity

48%

PERCENTAGE Of employees WHO say they’d return to the office more often if it meant spending time with colleagues

42%

NUMBER OF drivers of employee well-being WHICH are measured by our Workplace Experience Index

41

Global employee engagement is sitting AT

21%

Falling engagement in 2024 alone cost

US $438 billion