Organisations are increasingly realising the positive benefits of investing in employee wellbeing. Caring for your people and finding ways to promote health, happiness and job satisfaction is not only good for individuals but for employers, too – resulting in a more positive, less stressed-out working environment where employees and organisations can thrive.

Conversely, overlooking employee wellbeing can have significant business consequences; poor mental health is now the number one cause of sickness absence in the UK and is estimated to cost employers between £33 billion and £42 billion a year.

With this in mind, it really does pay to provide incentives, tools and resources to support wellbeing. In fact, almost half of UK companies now have a wellbeing strategy, recognising that a healthy workforce means enhanced productivity, better engagement, increased retention and ultimately less issues to deal with.

In a world where employees now commonly value happiness over salary and benefits, building your wellbeing strategy should be just as important as building your brand and developing your products and services.

If wellbeing is high on your agenda for 2021, join us in the lead up to Blue Monday – supposedly the most depressing day of the year – for our free live webinar, ‘10 Ways to Employee Wellbeing’.

During the session, our expert hosts, Head of People Engagement, Sue Wilcock, and HR Consultancy Manager, Adele Blinkhorn, will explore the importance of employee wellbeing for both employers and their staff, share best practice, and help you to think about key HR considerations in relation to wellbeing, such as: 

• How to address wellbeing issues early on to avoid employee relations problems;
• Why managers are best placed to notice changes in employee’s behaviour or demeanour;
• How to create connections so that people don’t feel alone and isolated whilst working from home;
• Getting people back into the work environment and creating your ‘new norm’;
• How to keep employees active and their brains engaged whilst homeworking; and
• What has EW learned and put into practice in terms of its own employees’ wellbeing?