Since 2015, the global services company has provided an Employee Assistance Programme to support colleagues with life’s challenges. The EAP service, which is available 24/7 and 365 days a year, will provide colleagues and their immediate family with confidential, free counselling and wellbeing support.
Ryan Candy, head of change, employee experience & people performance at Sodexo, said: “We are delighted to have partnered with Spectrum.Life to offer all colleagues access to a comprehensive suite of market-leading health, wellness, legal and financial support. The wellbeing of our people is critical to us and an integral part of our culture, and we understand balancing everyday life with the requirements of work, and personal life can create pressures for all.
“We have a laser focus on enhancing our colleagues’ health and wellbeing and one of the ways we do this is through partnerships with industry experts such as Spectrum.Life, and we see this as a positive step in our journey to make Sodexo a great place to work.”
Spectrum.Life will also offer an innovative digital support service to improve the general wellbeing of the user through their EAP, which provides access to:
- A digital gym with an extensive range of live gym classes each week and on-demand access to 500 fitness classes
- Nutrition information with more than 200 recipes
- A digital wellbeing seminar series, with a weekly schedule of live and on-demand events built around recognised wellbeing calendars and key events
- Mental health e-learning with courses created by clinicians
- Self-guided mindfulness and meditation courses, focussing on a range of topics
Angela Halliday, director of social impact at Sodexo, added: “We are living through challenging times, and our commitment to the welfare of everybody in the organisation will be enhanced by the introduction of this support, which we encourage any colleague to use should they need it.
"Sodexo has a deep social commitment to its people, and we have put our core values into action by providing very concrete support to help our colleagues stay happy, healthy and fully focused on life.”