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Businesses should consider a four-day working week and regulate working hours to promote a healthy work-life balance supporting mental and physical health, University College London (UCL) is recommending. The university also called...

Hub International has launched Hub Care Concierge, an employer technology platform aimed at helping support employees with their health and wellbeing and improving productivity and retention. The platform provides employees with 24/7...

Four in 10 insurance businesses across the global have reassessed their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals due to social trends such as the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. This is...

Digital health platform Peppy has expanded its women's health service offering to mirror it's men's service. The service now extends to gynaecology, contraception, sex, nutrition, exercise, common conditions including PCOS, endometriosis, breast...

Insurers are noticing an increasing number of group income protection (GIP) customers coming to them for long Covid support. Official data released earlier this month, reveals the number of people in the...

Insurer YuLife has entered into a strategic partnership with sleep tracker app Sleep Cycle. Through the partnership YuLife will use Sleep Cycle's solutions for monitoring and improving sleep health in order to...

Aviva has reported soaring demand for long Covid support from its income protection (IP) intervention and rehabilitation services. Long Covid support overtook cancer and musculoskeletal conditions to become the second most common...

Willis Towers Watson has become the latest global consultancy firm to withdraw from Russia. In a statement released yesterday, the global advisory, broking and solutions company said it will withdraw from all...

Unum is offering all employees with female reproductive organs free access to Bupa's menopause plan as part of its reproductive health policy. The plan includes 45 minutes with an experienced menopause trained...

The number of firms implementing menopause support policies has almost doubled since September, according to digital health platform Peppy. Peppy's data showed that 38% of firms it quizzed in January had put...