All Sickness absence articles – Page 4
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Supplier articleGoing above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Chilton Meadows
“Going above and beyond is something that comes naturally to the staff team at Bupa’s Chilton Meadows Care Home in Stowmarket Suffolk,” says Home Manager, Tania Thompson, who has been nursing for three decades and working at the care home for the last three years.“The team’s priority is keeping residents ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Attracting & Retaining Staff Without Straining Your Finances
As a small business owner, you are constantly faced with the question of how to stay competitive with your larger counterparts? After all, in every aspect of running a business, staying competitive can be difficult for smaller companies. How, specifically, can you attract and retain employees at the same level?However, ...
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Article35% of employees continue to work while sick
Just over a third (35%) of employees have continued to work from home while being unwell, according to research by Canada Life.Its research, involving 2,000 working adults, and 500 small-to-medium business (SME) decision-makers, also found that two in five (40%) did not feel their illness was serious enough to take ...
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Supplier articleProtecting mental health while working from home
Since the UK – and now, much of the world – moved into a state of ‘lockdown’ following the Covid-19 outbreak, mental and emotional wellbeing (which includes mental health) has come even more to the forefront for workplaces. It seems, just as organisations began tackling mental health, a new pandemic ...
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Supplier articleExercise among employees is for life, not just lockdown
An active workforce is not just healthy: studies show that it is also more productive, more engaged and - most importantly – happier. Employers are in a unique position to positively influence engagement in physical activity by their staff and, encouragingly, recent Deloitte research showed that 78% of employers are ...
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Supplier article8 Ways to Relieve Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work and can be made worse by sedentary lifestyles. A combination of sitting in front of a computer all day with a lack of exercise is a perfect storm. However, simple lifestyle changes can help to ease aches and ...
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Article65% of employees say work has a negative impact on their mental health
Just under two-thirds (65%) of employees say work has a negative impact on their mental health, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).Its survey of 6,000 employees found this was up by 9% from its previous survey in 2018, which found that just over half ...
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ArticleIan Hodson: Should employers be preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus?
At the University of Lincoln, we are certainly preparing all our responses to have longevity as well as meeting the short-term needs.At face value, nothing has changed since we went into lockdown other than controlling the spread through lockdown and social distancing, therefore, we have to believe that as restrictions ...
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ArticleIlan Kelman: Should employers be preparing now for further waves of the Covid-19 virus?
Lockdown in the UK for over two months has saved thousands of lives, while imposing a heavy burden on employers and employees. Imagine this situation as an irregular cycle. Who is preparing and can we actually prepare?To avoid repeating the horror of tens of thousands of deaths from Covid-19 (Coronavirus), ...
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Supplier articleGoing above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Leominster
It wasn’t going to be a typical day off for two of the carers at Leominster Bupa Care Home. They often give up their free time to help and have fun with the residents they have come to love as part of our care home family, but today was going ...
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Supplier articleThe Dangers of Selling ‘360-Degree Wellness’
A thought piece by James Shillaker, Founding MD of Incorpore Limited’I have an objection to the term ‘360-degree wellness’.At best, the term has no clinical validation whatsoever. It is simply management jargon. At worst, it could be marketing a misleading message and preventing people from accessing more accurate clinical help. ...
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OpinionNatasha Broomfield-Reid: Promoting employee wellbeing during the Covid-19 lockdown
As the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic forces many to continue to work from home and others to accept furlough, a proactive, well-planned approach to employee wellbeing could make all the difference to employees' happiness, motivation and productivity.Whether this focus comes in the form of a dedicated employee wellbeing manager, or HR ...
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ArticleAegon UK enhances employee wellbeing programme for 2,000 staff
Aegon UK has enhanced its employee wellbeing programme by launching a series of wellbeing videos to support its 2,000 staff, during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The videos, which form part of the organisation's wellbeing hub, will be hosted by employees and guests vloggers and will feature gardening tips, a cycle repairs ...
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AnalysisWhere do the parameters of employers' responsibility to wellbeing lie?
Need to know: We live in a very open age, but employers must still tread carefully when it comes to employees’ personal lives.Physical, mental and financial wellbeing is all-important to employees' productivity and they will be looking to employers to help in the midst of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Employers ...
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Case StudiesSantander offers employees extensive wellbeing support without overstepping boundaries
Banking group Santander UK offers its 23,500 employees wellbeing support across four key areas: physical, mental, social and financial.Offering employees access to a wide range of support is how Santander makes sure its staff have everything they need, when they most need it, without straying too far into people’s personal ...
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Supplier articleGoing above and Beyond during Corona Virus; Northlands
Deputy Home Manager, Annie Tolici, has been going above and beyond in ensuring residents are safe and secure at Bupa’s Northlands House Care Home in Southampton.Northlands House took the difficult decision to restrict visiting by family and friends in March and since then, the care home has been keeping positive ...
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Supplier articleHow to Tackle and Reduce Stress
We all know what it's like to feel stressed and of course it can become overwhelming at times. It’s been reported that over 500,000 people in the UK feel ill as a result of their level of work-related stress. Identifying when and why you're stressed is the first step in ...
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Supplier article7 Fitness Motivation Tips to Keep You Going
We all have days when we wake up and think ‘today is the day’. During lockdown, many of us have plunged ourselves full steam ahead into a fitness regime, which - let's be honest - we've not all stuck to. Don't put yourself down by thinking you have failed, see ...
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Article46% of employees cancel seven days of annual leave in 2020
Just under half (46%) of full-time employees are cancelling an average of seven days annual leave in 2020, according to research by Timetastic.The survey of 2002 UK employees, published in May 2020, also found that just over one-third (36%) have not been informed by their employers of any guidelines in ...
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Case StudiesThe Landmark London adapts benefits to support staff through pandemic
The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has presented some challenges for the Landmark London Hotel in how to support the health and wellbeing of its employees.Prior to the crisis, the hotel ran many of its initiatives in a face-to-face setting; now, with many employees either on furlough leave, working in small teams ...