HR Awards
Best Employee Wellness Programme
Pizza Express (Hong Kong) Limited
Wellness Initiatives 2021
"In this environment, we like to remind our teams: every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."
Pizza Express Hong Kong is proud of its family values, so when COVID erupted and life as we know it came to a pause, their priority was to support their family unit, particularly with large numbers of our frontline staff unable to visit family in their home countries. Out of this need, ‘Team Wellness’ was launched with three key goals to:
- support the physical and mental wellbeing of the team
- celebrate the cultural diversity
- have fun along the way.
The ‘Team Wellness’ initiative provided the opportunity for the company to show staff that it cared. Moreover, it created a brand-new platform for rewarding and thanking staff and in turn helped create a happy, healthy and positive workplace. All of this was to be achieved with smart budgeting to minimise resources and maximise impact.
2021 marks Pizza Express Hong Kong’s 20th anniversary and presented a great opportunity to celebrate this with their team with prizes, rewards and excitement. The group strives to ensure that Pizza Express is a workplace that offers open, transparent communication, staff support and is a fun, understanding and exciting place of employment. To help facilitate these goals, the Group planned sustained initiatives across the year, using a new internal Facebook group as an opportunity to disseminate information in a fun and friendly manner.
Activities run to date have included ‘Fit for Fun’ challenges to promote physical exercise, innovative mindfulness workshops such as yoga, Singing Bowl meditations, soapmaking and learning to draw Zentangles, plus health talks and Chinese Medicine assessments. The Group also completely reinvented their annual staff party to include a virtual live draw attended by over 300 colleagues through Facebook Live and the launch of a personal ‘thank you’ campaign for everyone to express gratitude to their colleagues.
Pizza Express also makes a point of celebrating cultural occasions and success, recently awarded one of their chefs their first Million Dollar Menu award. Talent’s long service is also celebrated, and the Group used their 20th Anniversary to honour staff who had also been with the company for 20 years.
Paul Arkwright
Publisher
