Wellness becoming an employer's job: CBI Director-General

Delivering the opening speech of the CBI's Future of Work conference, director-general Tony Danker told delegates that changes in the labour market meant businesses were becoming more responsible for the wellbeing of their staff. Alongside other trends, such as flexible working becoming mainstream practice, Danker highlighted the issue of employee wellbeing as something staff "want and need." "It's what those who are at home and could be back, want and need. The country needs it too - to have business lead on preventing illness because the NHS just doesn't have the bandwidth," he said...