PruHealth, Mercer & The Telegraph have joined forces once again to survey companies nationwide and assess how healthy they and their employees are in Britain’s Healthiest Company competition. Continue reading
Tag Archives: absence prevention
Fit for Work UK call to action to prevent chronic illness
Fit for Work UK have issued a call to action this week (21st July 2014) to put the growing ill-health of UK workforce on the agenda. Continue reading
Easy self-assessments could reduce absence due to alcohol misuse drastically
Don Shenker, director of the Alcohol Health Network (AHN), has written an article for Personnel Today about alcohol misuse and ways to prevent it. Continue reading
Holidays are good for your health
It’s the height of summer and hopefully you have just been or are looking forward to going on holiday soon. If you don’t have any holiday booked, we strongly recommend you rectify that soon because, simply put, holidays are good for your health! Continue reading
Cycle to work – a miracle medicine
“To promote healthier journeys to work and to reduce environmental pollution, the 1999 Finance Act introduced an annual tax exemption, which allows employers to loan cycles and cyclists’ safety equipment to employees as a tax-free benefit” as you can read on the gov.uk website. This Cycle to Work scheme is still going strong with nearly half a million bikes sold through the Cyclescheme. Continue reading
Do call centres enhance absence management?
Absence management is a 24 hour job. If your employees need to call in sick, restricting the time in which they can notify you just isn’t realistic. But on the other hand, expecting managers to be on call for absence 24 hours a day isn’t realistic either. The solution is call centres, but the question is: Do call centres enhance absence management? Or should this be a management responsibility only? Continue reading
Unloved employees pull the most sickies
Its official! If employees feel that their employers don’t care about them, they vote with their feet and walk on home. Continue reading
Meet the Usual Suspects – Sleeps-with-Smartphone
In the second of our series welcoming you to the Usual Suspects of absence management, we are introducing you to Sleeps-with-Smartphone. Continue reading
Happy companies make more money
So last week we wrote about how the scientists behind Blue Monday have decided that its date should be changed from the 3rd Monday in January to the 1st Monday after New Year. That may well be true but many still struggle to stay positive throughout the month of January Continue reading
Good posture saves you from a lot of trouble!
This great inforgraphic by Greatist explains why good posture is SO important and how to improve it. What a great visual guide to improving your posture and ridding us from back pain and musculoskeletal problems! Continue reading