Sickness absence management

Returning to work is the top ‘practical’ concern for employees going through a cancer diagnosis, research has found.
The poll...

Businesses employing disabled people are complaining they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they...

Nearly half of UK employees (43%) did not take even a full week off work last year, a survey has...

Employers and workplace health professionals are urging the government to do more to encourage employers to invest in support for...

Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...

More than a quarter of workers (28%) believe their employer is ineffective at managing workplace stress, according to a poll....

Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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