Health Assured, the UK and Ireland’s leading largest independent and award-winning employee assistance programme (EAP) provider, has seen a dramatic 116% increase in the number of anxiety-related calls to their helpline over the last 3 years.
| Published: 24 May 2023
An industry group comprising more than 50 of the best-known brands and businesses in Britain is calling on all employers to invest in employee health and wellbeing as the cost of living continues to rise.
| Published: 23 May 2023
March and April user data for HIVE360’s employee benefits app Engage confirms employees are using financial benefits more
| Published: 23 May 2023
You could be forgiven for thinking that HR’s role is limited to hiring and firing. But in reality, there’s a lot more to it than that. And by a lot, we sure do mean A LOT.
| Published: 22 May 2023
It is essential to appreciate that not every negative feeling is a mental health concern. Life is, at times, sad and stressful, but stress is not always anxiety, and sadness is not necessarily depression.
| Published: 22 May 2023
New research suggests that employer support for cash-strapped workers could disappear even though the cost-of-living crisis is not yet over. Around three-quarters of organisations have introduced measures to ease employees’ money worries – including financial wellbeing advice, one-off payments, inflationary-based pay rises and interest free loans.
| Published: 22 May 2023
To help employees suffering from anxiety, Emma Capper, UK Wellbeing Leader at Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing (HEBW), is urging businesses to normalise conversations about anxiety and to recognise that if someone is suffering from anxiety it can manifest itself in physical symptoms, as well as cognitive symptoms.
| Published: 21 May 2023
Just 51.5% of UK job ads disclose salary in April 2023, down from 61.4% in April 2022, to a 7 year low.
| Published: 21 May 2023
New research from employee engagement leader Sodexo Engage highlights the prevalence of mental health challenges among UK employees and offers insights on how businesses can provide support
| Published: 20 May 2023
Last September, the government announced that by the end of 2023, all EU-derived laws were to expire unless positive action was taken to either retain or amend them, which instigated ambiguity as to what changes would affect businesses. But now the goalposts have changed again.
| Published: 20 May 2023
