Balancing employees’ mental health important, says DECS boss
KINGSTON, Jamaica —Underscoring the importance of helping to take care of the mental health of employees, Sheldon Beckford, managing director and owner of DECS Management and Logistics Services Limited, has encouraged business owners to create opportunities for workers to unwind, especially at the end of a work week.
On Friday, DECS partnered with Mr Tyre Auto, RTA Biz Shipping, Firm Insurance Brokers and PriceSmart to host a corporate lyme and mingle event at the Jamaica Officers’ Club, Up Park Camp in St Andrew.
Friday’s event signalled the beginning of something positive for the employees of DECS and its partner companies, and the idea is to make it a weekly calendar item.
Sheldon Beckford, Managing Director of DECS having a good chat
“I think it is important for employers like myself to appreciate activities like these that contribute to the balance of mental health. Right now, persons are stressed the entire week from making business decisions and need to unwind,” Beckford said.
“Employers need to create a space and environment for staff and other companies to come and appreciate downtime where you stop working and enjoy yourself. They need to start saying, ‘let us find somewhere and make a space available for them’. That is why this is so important to me. Corporate mingles and lymes can achieve that,” Beckford added.
It was a fun moment for these three employees of Firm Insurance
He told the Observer that he was extremely grateful to its partners for coming on board and basically demonstrating that they also recognise the importance of facilitating the unwinding process for employees.
Singling out PriceSmart, Beckford shared that his staff are given membership cards so that they can benefit from discounted prices when shopping for their homes and families.
“We have RTA Biz Shipping, MR Tyre Auto, and PriceSmart is a big part of our operations and all our staff have a PriceSmart card compliments of the company and we pay the membership so that they can enjoy shopping at discounted prices,” Beckford said.
