HR Awards
Best Work-Life Integration
Mattel
Employee Wellness 360: balancing work and home life
“Flexibility is key in creating a culture of psychological safety and well-being as everyone navigates differing challenges and anxieties.”
Mattel believes in healthy living together with active, positive lifestyles. The organisation cares about its employees’ well-being and strives to balance the work and home life of all its talent teams. While fully committed to supporting its employees, consumers, communities and the planet, nothing is more important to Mattel than the well-being of its employees and their families. Flexibility is key in creating a culture of psychological safety and well-being as everyone navigates differing challenges and anxieties. Mattel, therefore, has striven to maintain a balance of work and home life for all employees from a holistic and multi-faceted approach.
Flexible working arrangements: work from home arrangements to maximise flexibility, with flexible arrival and departure times for employees working in the office.
Work-life balance benefits: early offs on Fridays and festive celebrations to enable employees to better enjoy their personal time. Compensation leave, when holidays fall on Saturdays. Parental/Maternity leave and work from home arrangement to support new parents. Team building events and fun Birthday and Anniversary celebrations.
Family-friendly policy: dependants also enjoy medical and dental benefits. In addition, family members join the company’s virtual Talent Shows and Virtual Letter Writing initiatives as part of the global Play It Forward Campaign. Gifts are distributed at celebrations to share a little joy among employee families too.
Wellness and recreational events: initiatives include free Headspace accounts and meditation challenges, the Global Step Challenge, Mattel Play It Forward, Mattel Play Dates, Special Olympic Hong Kong Fun Day, Mattel Global Gift of Play. Special staff purchase schemes for toys and face masks. Health and Safety tips on remote working, home office set up and virtual fire drill training. Physical yoga classes.
Financial fitness: wellness workshops and wellness programme that provides reward points for voucher redemption.
Emotional fitness: webinars on better sleep, music therapy, and a fully-funded EAP.
Physical fitness: wellness webinars on pain relief, strengthening the back and healthy eating. Sanitiser kits and daily fruit baskets are provided to all staff. Employee massage sessions.
Social fitness: Recreational social clubs, APAC and local competitions and festival celebrations. CSR sessions run, including Earth Day and International Women’s Day, help raise awareness on important topics.
Globally, Mattel continues to be recognised for its efforts around philanthropy, health and wellness, diversity & inclusion, sustainability, responsible supply chain and product safety.
Paul Arkwright
Publisher
