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    Data highlights positive link between group income support and return to work

    by Nic Paton 14 May 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 May 2025

    Nearly three-quarters of workers (72%) who had to take time off for illness last year but were also working for...

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    ‘Healthy work’ about much more than access to EAPs, employers told

    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 28 Apr 2025

    Creating a healthy workplace has to be about much more than just buying in external services such as employee assistance...

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    Half a million more now have access to group risk support – report

    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025
    by Nic Paton 23 Apr 2025

    The number of people able to access workplace-based group risk policies rose by more than half a million last year,...

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    Flexible working and health insurance top employee priorities – poll

    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 21 Feb 2025

    Access to flexible working, paid ‘wellness days’, and health insurance or physical wellness programmes are employees' top priorities.

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    Employees able to get weight loss jabs through work for first time

    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 14 Feb 2025

    Employees are set to be able to get access to weight loss jabs through their workplace health, under a plan...

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    Half more likely to choose an employer offering health benefits – poll

    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025
    by Nic Paton 7 Feb 2025

    More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...

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    People unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ price hikes

    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025
    by Nic Paton 2 Jan 2025

    People up and down the country are being left unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ increases in private fees,...

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    Two-fifths favour ‘protective’ benefits over higher salary

    by Jo Faragher 27 Mar 2024
    by Jo Faragher 27 Mar 2024

    Two in five employees in the UK would take a pay cut if they were offered better benefits, according to a survey from MetLife UK.

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    Workplace health benefits prevented millions of sick days in 2021

    by Nic Paton 1 Dec 2023
    by Nic Paton 1 Dec 2023

    Workplace health benefits prevented 14 million sick days in 2021 and helped 12,500 full-time workers to stay in employment.

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    Better off more likely to have access to employer healthcare

    by Nic Paton 27 Nov 2023
    by Nic Paton 27 Nov 2023

    People who are financially comfortable are much more likely to be able to access employer-funded healthcare than those who are less well off.

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    More than half of UK employees want private healthcare benefit

    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2023
    by Nic Paton 21 Nov 2023

    More than half of the UK workforce (51%) now want access to private healthcare via their workplace, as concerns intensify...

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    How can HR help staff get through the bleak midwinter?

    by Steve Herbert 4 Nov 2021
    by Steve Herbert 4 Nov 2021

    A perfect storm of staff shortages, withdrawal of government support schemes and increased absence due to illness threaten a difficult...

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    Coronavirus only proves that SMEs need employee benefits

    by Steve Herbert 24 Sep 2020
    by Steve Herbert 24 Sep 2020

    Employee benefits have already proven their worth during the Covid-19 pandemic, but Steve Herbert believes they’ll become more important to...

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    Aon buys Willis Towers Watson in £23bn deal

    by Rob Moss 9 Mar 2020
    by Rob Moss 9 Mar 2020

    Aon is to acquire Willis Towers Watson in an all-share deal that will create the world’s largest insurance broker.
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    Global mobility and HR summit comes to London

    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 23 Oct 2019
    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 23 Oct 2019

    London hosts the Forum for Expatriate Management’s 2019 Global Mobility Summit next month with Brexit and immigration high on the...

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