Absence/Productivity

Around half of retail and hospitality workers lack comprehensive wellbeing benefits, according to research from Unum. The insurer’s survey of 2,010 UK SME decision-makers uncovered a growing divide in how these firms...

More than a quarter (27%) of SMEs have no wellbeing budget at all with the situation being even worse for micro businesses. Furthermore, 58% of SMEs agreed that current taxation policies actively...

Eleven major insurers, representatives and healthcare providers are among more than 60 employers joining forces with the government to help tackle labour market inactivity. The organisations will be part of the initial...

The government has committed to developing a voluntary certified workplace health provision standard by 2029.  This was one of the key elements of the new model to manage and reduce sickness absence...

The Keep Britain Working Review has urged the exploration of pooling mechanisms to help make investing in the workplace health provision (WHP) affordable for SMEs. It likened the process as similar to...

Adopting an overhauled employer-led shared responsibility approach to employee health at work and cutting sickness absence could save up to £18bn a year when fully running, according to the Keep Britain Working...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has identified a 23% increase in the number of people who used insurer-provided health services in 2023, such as virtual GPs, physiotherapy services and mental health...

Every two seconds, someone under the age of 70 dies from a chronic illness, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates. That’s nearly 17 million lives lost prematurely each year, lives cut short...

Employers are increasingly covering health benefits for their employees' families and dependents, according to research from PIB Employee Benefits. The advice firm added that mental wellbeing remained the most common area in...

Aviva is calling for larger corporates to be compelled to clearly communicate the details of their workplace health and wellbeing support and a voluntary national health at work standard for SMEs.  The...