Employers must go beyond awareness-raising on mental health

Organisations must go beyond awareness-raising and start taking more practical action to tackle mental illness, according to mental health campaigners Jonny Benjamin and Neil Laybourn

Analytics on employee benefits still lacking

Businesses advised to analyse data at their disposal, such as claims, absences or health risk assessments

Beware the H&W generational divide

?Employers should stay up-to-date with changing attitudes towards health in the workplace, according to founder of Well Aware Rebecca Fairbrother

Employers must do more to tackle sleep deprivation

Public Health England and BITC have launched a new guide to help companies tackle work-related insomnia

Employees with hearing loss face stigma at work

56% of people with hearing loss feel that opening up about it will negatively affect their career

Staff with money worries often highly stressed

?Employees are facing high levels of stress due to deteriorating financial wellbeing, according to new research

Adequate duty of care for the globally mobile

?Employers are legally obligated to ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of each employee?. But what about those who work overseas?

A third think work is making them fat

Sitting at a desk all day, not finding enough time for exercise, and colleagues bringing in unhealthy snacks were all cited as factors

Arthritis to cost employers £3.43 billion by 2030

The costs arise from lost working hours and days, and earlier retirement of sufferers

Health and wellbeing: Don't go for low-hanging fruit

The most popular H&W initiatives risk leaving many people behind and missing the point

How can we rise to the eldercare challenge?

An eldercare crisis could be the future if employers and government don't act now

Evaluating EAP effectiveness: Need for change

Just 9% of HR managers have attempted to evaluate their EAP in terms of ROI, and so could be missing a trick