Wellbeing

How will the regulator’s proposed ‘consumer duty’ rules differ from the ‘treating customers fairly’ regime?  We have yet to see the FCA’s draft proposals, which are expected to come into force next...

As an industry, the investment and savings profession is not representative of the population as a whole. While female employment rates across the board in the UK are not that far behind...

Fit notes still require improvement a decade after their introduction, according to a Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing study. Howden polled 181 senior human resources, finance, and payroll experts and discovered that...

Leading employer organisations have called on the government to appoint a menopause ambassador as part of a series of recommendations in a new report titled ‘Menopause and Employment’. The Chartered Institute of...

A fifth of SME business leaders, equivalent to over a million small business bosses, are worried that their employees’ productivity has fallen over the past 18 months, research from Canada Life has...

Almost a third of UK adults have experienced mental health issues since the start of the Covid pandemic, but less than half of these people have sought help from their insurer to...

The primary concern for employers regarding baby boomers in the workplace is their physical health and wellbeing, according to Grid research. According to the research, employers believe baby boomers, the generation born...

More than a third of UK adults have continued to work while feeling unwell in the past 18 months, according to research from Canada Life. Over the last 18 months, 35 per...

Vitality has announced the addition of several new partners and several enhancements to its Vitality Programme, which rewards members for making healthier lifestyle choices and taking steps to improve their health. Peloton,...

Pension and employee benefit consultancy Buck has appointed Chris Mowatt to be its new head of UK share plans.  Mowatt, who joins from Barclays, has over 25 years experience in this particular...