Health & Wellbeing

Corporate cash plans continue to shine, with the latest figures from LaingBuisson showing the market grew by a chunky 11.8 per cent in 2016 to cover a record 1.01m employees. And, with their...

During Dying Matters week, 14 – 20 May 2018, Group Risk Development (Grid) is addressing what it sees as being wrongly held perceptions that someone’s family would not receive a pay-out should...

If consultants and advisers in the field of health and wellbeing wanted a validation that the products and services they recommend are value for money, the Stevenson/Farmer Thriving At Work Review of...

Have you noticed that the stigma around mental health issues is starting to fade? With the involvement of high profile individuals, including the British royal family, opening up about their own struggles...

The provider says it has seen a doubling in business customer claims for mental health treatment in the last decade and says its new Bupa Business Mental Health Advantage is designed to enable...

Where will open banking take the employer/ employee relationship? It will help people to get better deals on things – but they need to understand that they now own their banking data,...

Unum’s employee assistance programme (EAP), provided by LifeWorks, received 12,610 calls in 2017, 70 per cent of which related to mental health issues. A further 14 per cent of callers had legal...

While the UK’s productivity gap is a mammoth problem, the range of tools the group risk industry brings to employers to help tackle it is wide and varied. The tools that insurers...

A survey of governance professionals by ICSA: The Governance Institute and The Core Partnership found that 32 per cent are considering action to address their gender pay balance, with 28 per cent...

The wellbeing of globally mobile workers is significantly lower than domestic workers, with loneliness, anxiety and fear of falling ill while abroad all fuelling a perception that they are worse off than...