How Sonae Campus is cultivating a happier and healthier workplace?
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In our first edition, we will talk about sustainability, well-being at work and how Sonae Campus responds to these issues through the Noocity Ground Yourself Program.
Daniela Mendes , Workplace Experience Specialist, at SONAE , shares with Noocity the company's vision.
What are the benefits that the Noocity Corporate Vegetable Garden has brought to the company and its employees? Has there been any positive impact on sustainability or employee wellbeing?
Sustainability has always been present in our daily routines and really comes to life in actions and projects such as the Sonae Campus vegetable garden. The project’s positive impact on the planet was one of the factors which, right from the start, made us want to embrace this initiative.
We ended the year of 2022, in which the project kicked off in April, with:
Leaving us proud of the positive impact on our planet.
In terms of wellbeing, the benefits of regular breaks while we work and contact with nature are proven.
This project enables us to foster healthy breaks, in contact with life outdoors, in teams, with people from different Group companies who get to know one another and interact.
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We believe that, in this way, we are creating a more sustainable, healthier and happier workplace.
Is Sonae concerned about the wellbeing of its employees? Do you believe that contact with nature can have a positively influential impact?
At Sonae Campus we are intensely focused on the health and wellbeing of the people who work here, which must be appraised in a holistic manner, naturally including physical and mental health.
We know that workplace trends, relative to which we consider we are doing our utmost to meet peoples’ expectations, focus on wellbeing, in a flexible sense, with new spaces for socialising and interaction, to nurture healthy work routines and in which we create breaks to reduce stress and interact with colleagues.
This project fulfils everything we seek for a healthier and happier workplace – the vegetable garden enables switching off from work in a peaceful place (our vegetable garden is located in a green area on the rooftop of one of our warehouses), outdoors, in contact with nature and colleagues, fostering social connections and where we literally put our hands in the earth.?
Finally, why did you decide to join the Ground Yourself Programme? Do you consider it beneficial?
The Ground Yourself Programme, with monthly sessions energised by the Noocity team, is an initiative that is very beneficial to the project.
More than just a vegetable garden or a series of vegetable beds, with the Ground Yourself Programme we have created moments of meeting, sharing and learning where, together, employees and the Noocity team, we travel through the different seasons of the year, the needs and particularities of each, we learn concepts of biological agriculture, we learn how to make crop plans, to fertilise and even manage our worm composting process.
With these training sessions, more than vegetables we cultivate wellbeing and moments of interaction.?