Exchange Quay, Manchester’s 435,000 sq ft flagship office campus has launched a new workplace wellness partnership with Urban Reform as part of its health and wellbeing strategy to support occupiers and staff in a post Covid world.
Manchester-based health and wellbeing business Urban Reform offers a diverse team of health coaches who specialise in helping city centre businesses and their staff take ownership of their health, happiness and lifestyle choices through a series of wellness programmes and workshops.
The pandemic has adversely affected mental health with more and more employees needing and increasingly seeking additional support from their employers. Exchange Quay recognises and embraces wellbeing for its occupiers and the new collaboration aims to educate, encourage and motivate more than 4000 campus workers to create and develop new habits to look after their health and wellbeing.
The workplace wellness partnership will kick off with a cluster of health checks for Exchange Quay employees followed by a postural awareness campaign in October. This will be a series of 4 linked on site workshops and 4 physical strengthening sessions to help office workers with lower back pain education and support. Other workshops planned include one on Mental Health to tie in with the winter months and low mood and Nutrition, focussing on healthy eating on a budget in light of the cost of living crisis.
Luke Podmore, Health & Wellbeing Leader and PT at Urban Reform commented:
“We are excited to partner with Exchange Quay to deliver a series of sustainable wellbeing initiatives. We believe happier and healthier employees are the key to achieving long term success in business with talent increasingly seeking companies with a strong health and wellbeing agenda. We specialise in providing packaged support services to city centre businesses where the working environment is largely sedentary, including high pressure jobs with a diverse range of professionals who would benefit from our health and lifestyle support.”
Les Lang, Director, Till AM said:
“We are committed to helping the businesses that are our tenants. The current cost of living crisis coming so soon after the pandemic and the need to address people’s wellbeing and mental health has never been greater. By working with Urban Reform, who have a proven track record of delivering wellbeing programmes for businesses such as AJ Bell, Selfridges, CBRE and more, we can play our part in helping people.
“We think the wellness programmes will help in multiple ways from combating lower motivation and energy to improving moral, addressing and helping with anxiety and mental health needs, educating on nutritional and health choices, empowering people to take control of their health and fitness journey and so much more. A better future is possible when businesses help build the skills for wellbeing and we want to give occupiers and their staff the tools and know-how to improve their long term health and happiness. It is our ambition to be the healthiest office campus in Manchester.”
