Wellbeing

Opperman has urged UK employers to invest in the health and wellbeing of their staff in a hard-hitting report ‘All Hands on Deck’, co-authored by employment lawyer Laura Farris, where he argues...

Alan Fergusson has launched a new employee benefits consultancy service, known as Beneficia. This consultancy aims to offer ‘in-house’ resources to employers, working with brokers and providers to deliver a range of...

More than half of employees with financial worries say they underperform at work, according to new research.  MetLife said this showed these financial problems were causing significant problems for employers and were...

The number of companies offering more flexible pension choices is expected to triple within the next three years. Willis Towers Watson’s latest pension strategy survey found that just 9 per cent of...

Seven out of 10 employees says mental wellbeing isn’t taken seriously enough in the workplace. The poll - carried out by Health Shied, the cash plan provider - found a similar number...

Nest Insight has launched its new ‘sidecar savings’ trial in a bid to boost employees’ financial resilience. The first employer in this trial will be Timpson, who will use the scheme with its...

When it comes to workplace wellbeing, it is telling that it’s a lot easier to talk about what isn’t working than what is. There is rarely much agreement within organisations as to...

Generali UK has announced a new partnership with LifeWorks to makes more of its wellbeing services available to employers. The two companies already work together on other products, with LifeWorks providing the...

Health secretary Matt Hancock set out plans to make prevention a central plank of the upcoming NHS long term plan, and a green paper will be published on this issue next year. ...

Zurich Insurance  has launched a new three-year research programme in conjunction with the University of Oxford to look at how today’s workers can get adequate financial protection. This ‘Agile Protection’ study will...