Legal & General has launched a new benefit, ‘Healthy Living', which will enable employers to see trends in their employees' health, as employees engage with it.
The government has pledged to form a new state-funded service which will carry out an independent assessment of employees after four weeks of sickness absence.
UK companies are falling behind the rest of Europe in implementing measures to effectively tackle and deal with stress in the workplace, according to a study carried out by Vigeo.
There is not enough competition among insurers and hospitals, Jelf Employee benefits has warned.
Three quarters of workers are worried that work will spoil their Christmas, a survey has found.
Price has proven to be the bigger factor over benefits when selling cash plans, advisers have said.
Think-tank Demos has called on bosses to offer employees income protection (IP) schemes this Christmas to boost morale and productivity.
People absent from work because of illness are more likely to report a mental health condition than those at work, according to DWP statistics.
Employers are failing to make the most of the options available to them when it comes to healthcare for their staff, yet still say price is their premium concern.
Employers have been up spending on benefits in spite of auto-enrolment costs, Group Risk Development (GRiD) has reported.