Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said that businesses could work together with the government to improve the population's overall health by enhancing employee welfare. Unlike acute care, preventive care needs to be a sustained effort and done early enough to be easy, affordable and even enjoyable. In addition, the workplace is an important part of people's social circles and a natural touchpoint to encourage people to change their habits.

"Preventive care opens up far more opportunities for innovation and participation by enterprises and industries, and we have a great opportunity to build a strong public-private-people partnership for health…With employees now returning to workplaces, I hope companies will double down on reintroducing many of these self-care, fitness and wellness programmes," said the health minister.

Strategies to improve employees' well being

According to the Harvard Business Review, here are some tips on how to improve your employees' health and overall well being:

1. Take steps to foster a sense of social belonging among employees
2. Encourage managers to support employees' personal needs
3. Keep your organisation adequately staffed so that employees are not overloaded
4. Provide employees with opportunities to identify and solve problems
5. Increase the stability of workers' schedules
6. Allow employees more flexibility in where and when they want to work
7. Give workers more control over how they do their work

What initiatives would your organisation come up with to help enhance employees' well being in the workplace?