Absence/Productivity

The pandemic dramatically changed how people across the country perceive private healthcare. Private health benefits can be the deciding factor as to whether a company secures the candidate they are seeking to...

Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 will close this weekend. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been...

Voting for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 will close this week. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been...

Spending less time with the boss could be key to increasing workplace happiness. This is according to Reward Gateway/Edenred and London School of Economics’ The Happiness Dividend report, published last week, which...

Stress is an increasingly common condition, with just shy of one million cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety reported for 2023–24 by the UK Health & Safety Executive. From an employer...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 are open for entries from advisers, while voting for the provider awards is also underway. There are 15 Awards for advisers to highlight the quality...

Half of HR professionals do not think 2022’s overhaul of fit notes have made them more useful in absence management. However, there is some support for the system as a whole. In...

Aviva paid £1.99bn across 61,632 individual and group protection claims last year. This was up from £1.89bn across 61,975 claims in 2024. The insurer paid more than 51,000 individual protection claims last...

Spire Healthcare has launched an end‑to‑end workplace health solution designed to help employers proactively improve employee wellbeing, reduce sickness absence, and boost productivity. Spire Workplace Health is a single proposition spanning prevention,...

Working-age adults reported a decline in health between 2011 and 2021, with those living in more deprived areas even more likely to see a decline in their self-reported health. This is according...