MN Healthy Workplaces: Fall 2020

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September 17, 2020

Living and working in a virtual world

As we look ahead to this fall and winter, take time to learn more tricks and tips to live and work successfully in a virtual world. Use these ideas for yourself and share with your colleagues through your workplace wellness efforts.


Eating healthfully during the pandemic

Eating nourishing meals and snacks are critical to maintaining good health – both physically and mentally. Here are some tips that can support you and your household:


How employers can support employee mental health

We have lived through six months of the pandemic, experienced civil unrest due to long-standing racial injustices, and have been balancing the uncertain economy. Warm summer days allowed us to be outdoors and gave a slight reprieve from stress, but what can managers do to support their employees over the fall and winter?

Here are some tips from the Harvard Business Review: 


Desk ergonomics

This informative video from the Wall Street Journal provides a quick refresher on making sure your desk is set up right for you: 


COVID-19 guidance for workplaces

Check out the MDH Businesses and Employers: COVID-19 webpage for more information on the latest guidance whether opening, planning for opening, or health-related issues such as screening and testing employees.


Webinar: Reducing Chronic Disease Risk During the Pandemic

This webinar is back by popular demand! It is a reprise of the June 24, 2020 version, updated with important COVID-19 considerations.

With COVID-19 dominating the headlines — and our lives — preventive care is slipping off the radar. But because people living with chronic disease are at increased risk of severe illness from the coronavirus, it’s more important than ever to assertively address preventable conditions.  

Please join us for a fast-paced, complimentary lunch-and-learn webinar to get the latest information about how employers are getting results with high-quality, cost-effective diabetes prevention programs. You will learn to assess your organization’s risk of doing nothing, gain information about how Minnesota employers are addressing prediabetes, and come away with valuable tools and resources to help your organization act to stop diabetes in its tracks.

WHEN: October 1, 2020

TIME:   11:30-12:30 (CST)

Session number: 146 895 4563
Session password: NoMoreDiabetes! 

Join the Session

To join the session by phone only:

United States Toll:+1-415-655-0003
United States Toll Free:1-855-282-6330

Tips for working from home with kids

  • Set up a routine. Wake up, get dressed and have breakfast at your normal time before school and work.
  • Designate a place where everyone can do their work effectively and without distractions.
  • Make a schedule or to do list of assignments, meetings, meals and break times including relaxation and exercise.
  • Have dinner together to discuss what everyone accomplished that day or needs to be added to tomorrow’s to do list.
  • Stick to your normal bedtime routines as much as possible during the week to make sure everyone gets enough sleep.

For parents:

  • Try getting a head start early in the morning before everyone else is up.
  • Have one parent take the lead with schoolwork and switch around lunchtime.
  • Having a video chat with a grandparent, other family member or friend might provide a virtual check-in or distraction while a parent is in a work meeting.
  • If possible, block time off your calendar when you are unavailable for meetings. Discuss priorities with your leadership to pause any projects that are not essential.