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I was interested and pleased to see Rand Europe’s published research analysing data from NHS Healthy Workforce and Britain’s Healthiest Workplace surveys to understand employee engagement in the NHS. Rand is a respected and experienced organisation which has done much work over the years to help support understanding of NHS staff health and was one […]
I was interested to see the data reported in the recent EEF report “Employee Health: making industrial strategy work for Britain”. Despite 77% of 264 manufacturing organisations surveyed being aware of the Fit for Work Service, less than half (46%) would consider using it and nearly a quarter actively said they would not use it! […]
This is one of those seemingly obvious questions, but it is deeper than it may appear at first sight. Whilst clearly losing staff is associated with concerns about the loss of experience, loss of investment & skills from the training provided and of course the substantial replacement costs (currently over a thousand pounds for a […]
In their formal review, commissioned by the Government’s Business Information and Skills Department, “Engaging for Success; enhancing performance through employee engagement” Professor David Macleod and Nita Clarke showed clearly that high performing, competitive businesses benefited from engaged employees. Their review concluded that employee health and wellbeing were inextricably linked to good engagement. Managing sickness absence […]
The Working with Arthritis report launched on the 5th of July by Arthritis UK, highlights that musculo-skeletal conditions are one of the most common causes of sickness absence and job loss affecting over 10 million people in the UK. Justin Tomlinson, The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Disabled People supported the launch in the […]
Dr Steve Boorman at Empactis examines the lack of tools available for line managers to deal with the complicated issues that lead to staff absence and health problems and the role technology can play in affecting change. The divide between home and work is far less marked than it was just a decade ago. Today, […]
