Research: Less than one in ten employers share wellbeing statistics publicly

Reporting publicly on wellbeing metrics or statistics is still uncommon among employers, as is reporting publicly on mental health.

The Employee Wellbeing Research 2019, published by the Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) in association with AXA PPP healthcare, showed that although wellbeing metrics are reported by most organisations these reports stay internal.

For example, well over a third of employers report metrics to the senior leadership team or equivalent (42.7%), to the board (36.8%) or to the HR function (35.5%).

A total of 17.9 % of employers share the findings with staff.

Yet, it is quite rare for these figures to be published outside the organisation: fewer than one in 10 (8.1%) include wellbeing metrics in their annual reports and just a handful (3%) reveal this data to shareholders.

The survey of 250 wellbeing, HR and employee benefits specialists also showed that almost a third (32.9%) of organisations do not report wellbeing metrics at all.

When it comes to mental health statistics, public reporting is even less likely. Fewer than one in 20 (4.1%) employers publicly report statistics around the mental health of their workforce and almost four in five (79.7%) tell us they have no plans to do this.

“We have already seen that employers are reticent to report publicly on the general wellbeing of their employees; however, this is even more emphatic when it comes to mental health,” says the report.

Download a copy of the 76-page Employee Wellbeing Research 2019 (free to REBA Professional Members and all those working for REBA Associate Members).

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