Absence/Productivity

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme's 'outcome over output' approach to work has really paid off during the pandemic, according to chief people officer David Blackburn. Addressing delegates at the recent CIPD London...

Employers need to embed nutrition into wellbeing plans to unlock workforce brain power and boost productivity, a conference has heard. Addressing WPA's webinar Nutrition: Brain Power in the Workplace, nutritionist Clarissa Lenherr...

The UK may be home to twice the number of long Covid sufferers than first feared, with research suggesting the figure could be as high as two million. The Imperial College London-led...

Amazon Canada has launched My Wellbeing, an online wellbeing platform offering staff access to a range of physical, mental, social and financial care providers. The online retailer has been widely criticised throughout...

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...