The Responsibility Deal – employee health

The Responsibility Deal – employee health

The Public Health Responsibility Deal  is asking organisations to make a significant contribution to improving public health by working towards various pledges companies can help tackle the challenges caused by our lifestyle choices. Work Well @ Optum provides a...
CBI Absence Report 2013

CBI Absence Report 2013

Some key findings from the CBI Absence 2013 report Employers estimate that around 12% of total sickness absence equal to one day in eight of “sickness” absence is none-genuine Mental health conditions emerge as the single most widespread cause of long-terms absence...
What is an EAP?

What is an EAP?

An EAP is now one of the most popular benefits an employer can offer to staff and we thought we would consider the EAP history together. EAP history EAP’s were developed in the early 1900s in the USA as a way of combating alcoholism amongst the working class. In the...
Health and wellbeing kiosks

Health and wellbeing kiosks

Health and Wellbeing Teams across the UK are hiring health kiosks to enable their employees to take their own health metrics. The wellbeing kiosk provides health advice including weight, BMI, body fat, blood pressure and heart rate. Lifestyle questions and answers...