Absence/Productivity

Employee benefits, wellbeing and reward consultant Steve Herbert (pictured) has launched his own training and writing support company. Known across the pensions and employee benefits industry as well as to HR and...

Working To Wellbeing has launched a neurodiversity work support programme. The clinically led and evidence-based work support service is designed to enable individuals to self-manage characteristics of their neurodivergence and remain in...

Dissatisfied employees are three times more likely to experience depression and over three times more likely to have suffered burnout, according to the results of a Vitality survey.  And unhappy workers lost...

Paying individuals to go the gym could be the key to changing their health for the long term. This is according to Cass Sunstein the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard ,...

Today is International Women’s Day which means women’s health and wellbeing in the workplace is in the spotlight. Since its inception in 1911, International Women’s Day has marked progress towards gender equality,...

The Office for Budget Responsibility says it expects rising health-related inactivity to continue weighing on the UK worker participation rate. The revelation features in associated documents to this year's Spring Budget. The...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help embed healthcare and protection offerings with smaller employers. One of the hot news topics of recent months has been the arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the...

Long term sickness will cost the UK economy £66.3bn a year by the end of the decade and is causing depression among more than half of workers affected. This is according to...

New Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance clarifying employers' legal obligations and providing tips on making reasonable adjustments on menopause in the workplace underlines the importance of having a specific policy...

UK businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people from falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the government’s new occupational health tsar. Black,...