Absence/Productivity

British people are putting in more overtime while working from home, spending less time sleeping, and neglecting their physical health, according to research. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (below)...

The College of Paramedics has launched a wellbeing platform for members, offering them personalised access to a range of tools that promote mental fitness. The platform, launched in partnership with digital wellbeing...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is backing calls for long Covid to be classed as a disability as new research reveals long Covid sufferers are being discriminated against due to the condition....

Pandemic-fuelled trauma is leading to a dramatic decline in employee concentration levels across the US, according to data from Total Brain, a mental health and brain performance self-monitoring and self-care platform. The...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...

Homeworking is increasing loneliness among young people and causing them to feel cut off from colleagues, according to the LifeSearch Health, Wealth and Happiness Index. The research, compiled with the Centre for...

Workplace health and wellbeing programmes around the world must recognise and support the needs of people who have been hardest hit by the pandemic, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)...

Effective employer wellbeing strategies to tackle the threat posed by long Covid need to be underpinned by a solid framework of agencies including insurers and wellbeing providers. And advisers muct be at...

Wellbeing will remain atop the corporate agenda for many years as the world has “only seen the tip of the iceberg” from the Covid-19 pandemic. Health and wellbeing benefits are also likely...

Most employers cite improved staff wellbeing as their top consideration in making homeworking a permanent fixture, according to official data. When asked by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) why they plan...