Expert reveals how yoga at workplace can help employees
The Government of India has recently promoted 'Y-Break - Yoga at office chair,' which is a new work protocol for all government employees to indulge in a short yoga session that can help them de-stress. With International Yoga Day around the corner, Ms. Mansi A. Madan, former corporate trainer and Assistant Professor at JIMS Rohini shares how yoga at the workplace can benefit employees.
Yoga can enhance employee productivity
Madan firmly believes that yoga can help one rejuvenate and unwind. "Being healthy or sustaining one's health is a way of life and not a side interest anymore. Research has shown that yoga increases individual flexibility both mentally and physically, which can further lead to active individual involvement at work," she says. This can help an employee enhance their productivity in the workspace.
Yoga increases both goal orientation and goal commitment
"For organizations, performance is a direct measure of goal achievement. Yoga brings in that individual persistence to work consistently towards a goal," Madan tells NewsBytes. "This not only increases goal orientation but also goal commitment, ultimately leading to organizational commitment and citizenship," she adds. Companies can organize regular yoga sessions to help employees declutter their minds, decrease burnout, and enhance the clarity of work.
Employees can soon become goal setters instead of goal chasers
Apart from increasing attention, enhancing focus, and improving thought processes, yoga can also foster creativity. "When one gets ready to move out of their comfort zone and be resilient to witness results in yoga, they are then open to repeat the same framework at the workplace. This results in more employees qualifying as goal setters, pushing the boundaries at the organizational level," enlightens Madan.
It can keep them optimistic even during a stressful situation
"Yoga makes one spiritual and happy. This creates a positive and conducive environment for all employees to connect and work together " states Madan. "Office hours take 80% of our productive hours in a day. If we fill it with positivity, we shall only be able to ooze positivity, thus creating a favorable environment for everyone to function," she mentions.
Yoga can improve an employee's job satisfaction
"Job satisfaction is now a yardstick of multiple holistic factors which are dynamic. Yet, a good and non-toxic environment to work with and good financial and non-financial incentives make a star package," reveals the professor. If yoga becomes a culture at workplaces, Madan says that it can "help mitigate toxicity from the environment, creating better performers at work and better yield."
