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Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.

    • Absence
    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health

    Employers struggling to manage rising levels of sickness absence – poll

    by Nic Paton 7 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Apr 2025

    Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting...

    • Long Covid
    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health

    Working days lost to asthma up 150% since pandemic

    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025

    The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Health and safety

    Calls growing for UK national asbestos register

    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025

    Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    Research to tackle ill-health worklessness gets £7m cash boost

    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Apr 2025

    Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...

    • Latest News
    • Organisation development
    • Workplace culture

    Having confidence in role makes you a better colleague

    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025

    Workers who feel confident in their role and abilities are more likely to be good colleagues, ones prepared to go...

    • Benefits
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Two-thirds of healthcare workers threaten to quit without better benefits

    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025

    Two-thirds of healthcare workers (62%) are threatening to quit their jobs unless their benefits package is improved, research has warned....

    • Cancer
    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Employers failing to tell cancer carers of their rights

    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 31 Mar 2025

    More than half of employers fail to tell employees of their rights once they become a cancer carer, a survey...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    Gen X storing up health problems by failing to exercise

    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025

    Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    Hospitality and shift workers struggling with burnout

    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025

    More than eight in 10 shift workers report poor mental health, along with seven out of 10 hospitality workers, research has suggested.

    • Stress
    • Construction
    • Fit for Work

    Seven in 10 builders find it ‘too difficult’ to talk about mental health

    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025

    Nearly seven in 10 builders have suspected a colleague is seriously depressed yet have felt it was ‘too difficult’ to...

    • Hybrid working
    • Stress
    • Anxiety

    Hybrid workers less sick and less stressed

    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Mar 2025

    Hybrid workers take fewer sick days, are less stressed, are more able to access regular health check-ups, and report better...

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Dog owners more likely to want to work from home

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    Dog owners are more likely to want to adjust their working hours and/or work from home so as to be...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Anxiety

    A third struggling with burnout just three months into 2025 – poll

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    We may be just three months into 2025 but already more than a third of working Britons have experienced burnout,...

    • Fit for Work
    • Cancer
    • Military

    Bomb disposal veterans at heightened risk of bladder cancer

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    Army bomb disposal veterans may have a significantly increased risk of developing bladder cancer compared with the general public, according...

    • Fit for Work
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    People with breathing difficulties often making five trips to A&E

    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025
    by Nic Paton 24 Mar 2025

    People struggling with breathing difficulties are being forced to make as many as five trips to A&E before bringing their...

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