15 Jun 2017

Increasing wellness within the workplace can help boost productivity

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that there’s a link between the health of employees and the productivity of a business, but how do employers know that they are putting the right healthcare strategy in place?

Research from the latest Britain’s Healthiest Workplace 2016 survey (developed by Vitality) found that, for the average company, the cost of lost productivity is approximately 9.6% of its wage bill, with the average employee losing over 27.5 days of productive time each year due to ill health.

As the link between better employee health and increased productivity becomes increasingly apparent, more UK businesses are seeing the value of investing in workplace wellness. The programmes that have most impact on employee health are not simply bolt-ons to a business, they are fully integrated into workplace culture. That means they are instigated both top-down – from a board level – and bottom-up, by engaging employees in their own wellness.

This article was provided by Vitality.