When asked what they would most like their employers to provide, an annual duet day came top with 48 per cent of employees citing this as something they would like their employer to provide. This was followed by private healthcare, on 43 per cent, physical activity programmes such as discounted gym membership on 38 per cent, and informal relaxation areas in the workplace, preferred by 36 per cent of staff.
Six out of 10 said that would consider leaving their job if their employer did not address health and well-being in the workplace, while 83 per cent said the way that an employer looks after the health and wellbeing of its staff was important when making a decision about a job.
BITC has launched The Business Action on Health campaign, a business-led campaign to help companies better understand how to promote health and well-being in their organisations.
The campaign supports the work of the Government’s Health, Work and Well-being Strategy – and is guided by a leadership team chaired by Alex Gourlay of Boots, and including Mike Hall, chief executive of Standard Life Healthcare.
Hall says: ‘PMI is increasingly recognised as an employer benefit that can help with business productivity. Plans increasingly have a health and wellbeing element – such as our online assessments – designed to keep customers healthy, and it is most encouraging to see that the employees themselves are recognising and looking for the benefits PMI provides.’