In her role as HR director at Fora, Kristin Mörth has a range of important responsibilities. The most important — the glue in the organisation that helps the company develop — is the employees and their health. When she joined Fora just over a year ago, Kristin started proactive health work to promote health for everyone.
Fora is a service company that handles collectively agreed pension and insurance solutions. In Fora's modern, activity-based premises in central Stockholm, their 255 employees work, with Kristin Mörth as HR director. Since March, most of the work has been done remotely as a result of covid-19.
– A company should develop and thrive! I believe it is the people who work at the company who make that happen. That employees are sustainable and have the will to work here because they want to do their best for the company. That is especially important now when we work from home, says Kristin Mörth.
Saw the value in proactive health work
Kristin has long experience in HR and leadership positions at both small and large companies in different industries. In autumn 2019 she took up the position as HR director at Fora. The company had previously had reactive health work and acted only when employees became ill. But Kristin saw the value in shifting focus to proactive health work — finding challenges before they become problems.
– As an employer we have a responsibility when someone becomes ill; it is a major challenge to work on these issues when employees get sick and the costs are high. How can we as a company work proactively and prevent our employees from becoming ill?
First step towards health for everyone
As a first step in moving from reactive to proactive health work, OneLab was brought in. Last autumn all employees were given the opportunity to carry out OneLab's examination to give Fora a baseline for what they can and should work on. Kristin believes in "Health for everyone" and for her it was important that all employees were given the same opportunity. A follow-up will take place this autumn.
– We can now at an overarching level find out how things stand before employees become ill: How much do they move? Do they tend to sleep poorly? We got an overview and an indication of which initiatives were right to pursue.
Vision of a healthier future
Now there was confirmation of what had previously only been a feeling about how things stood in the organisation — and thereby a real opportunity to make it easier for employees to take steps towards a healthier life. Kristin now has a vision of carrying out active measures. This can be things like enabling employees to go for a run at lunch or providing tools such as mindfulness to wind down.
Digital mindfulness has been arranged a number of times during spring and autumn, the company has engaged speakers who talked about issues linked to mental health among other things, and in spring a five-week fitness race was held where employees were divided into groups and encouraged each other.
Kristin wants Fora in the future, in addition to the sick leave targets that already exist, to have individual health goals linked to exercise and an active life.
– They are valuable goals to achieve!
