Corporate Health Management (CHM) – health and wellness at ALDI DX
The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting challenges clearly demonstrated how important the topic of health and safety is for companies. Due to the remote work necessitated by the pandemic, the boundaries between our professional and private lives have increasingly become blurred. There is now greater focus on the relevance of physical and, in particular, mental health, as the repercussions of the pandemic can still be felt today. A rise in employee absences due to mental health issues and high staff turnover rates underscore the importance of companies addressing employee well-being both at and outside of work.
How are we confronting these challenges at ALDI DX?
The health of our employees is key to our success at ALDI DX. We therefore offer them a variety of measures to improve their well-being. To incorporate the issue of health sustainably in our company, we have established a corporate health management (CHM) programme with the following mission statement: at ALDI DX, our corporate health management programme offers our employees tangible, measurable and holistic measures to foster good health. In addition to supporting good health, we also support the other two pillars of corporate health management: occupational safety and corporate integration management.
Our measures to support good health can be divided into five areas:
Nutrition: Eating healthily together.
Exercise: Keeping fit together.
Balance: Keeping a healthy balance together.
Prevention: Taking care of ourselves together.
Work environment: Working healthily together.
All employees can also visit our two health portals, which provide numerous expert videos on health-related topics.
The wide array of information provided on our wellness portal can be subdivided into exercise, nutrition and mental health. Here, employees can additionally check their personal health resources at any time with our “health check”. The health check consists of three separate short questionnaires on the topics of biological health, psychological health and social health. In addition, numerous health specials and mindfulness clips are available.
The second health portal “voiio” provides our employee assistance programme and diverse content covering three categories: health, work and family. The platform supports our employees holistically in their work and private lives. The wide variety of the offers is a source of inspiration and includes topics such as virtual childcare, excursion tips, live and recorded sessions about work-life balance, nutrition, exercise and more.
Health Days – in ever-changing forms
We feel it is important to keep creating new offers and to include them thematically in the annual CHM campaign.
In one year, we offer check-ups and activities in our on-site “Health Days” event, as well as digital webinars and info sessions. In the following year, we spread these offers over several months, categorised by topic, so that measures take place throughout the year.
Below is a small excerpt of the topics we have covered in the past: nursing care, cancer prevention, addiction, nutrition, ergonomics, measurement of heart rate variability, assessment of the spine, stress type determination, age simulation and so much more.
Through feedback surveys after the measures, we let our employees actively participate in the design and selection of topics.
Exercise – keeping fit together
Our employees’ favourite events take place yearly. We are very pleased that two of these are exercise-related events: the Corporate Run in Mülheim and our internal Move Challenge.
The Corporate Run in Mülheim is not just about sports, it’s about team-spirit: our employees celebrate this event as one big ALDI team. Every year, we are the largest participating group. With our branded running shirts, we turn the run into an ALDI wave.
The Move-Challenge runs from September until November. During this period, employees can collect steps as a team by walking or running, or collect kilometres on their own by cycling. We created a further incentive to motivate employees: planting trees for every 100 kilometres that each participant completes. It’s no longer just about “moving and improving health”– we are also making the world a little bit greener again.