Employers have 'exaggerated' view on hybrid working benefits: GRiD

Mental wellbeing is largest benefit

Jaskeet Briah
clock • 2 min read

Employers have a “slightly exaggerated” view on the health and wellbeing benefits of hybrid working for their staff, research by GRiD has found.

The industry body for group risk surveyed 503 HR decision-makers and found that a larger proportion of employers (64%) cited hybrid working as having a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of their staff than the employees themselves (53%). On the employee side, mental wellbeing was considered the largest benefit of hybrid working, while social wellbeing (45%), financial wellbeing (44%) and physical wellbeing (43%) were considered to have an equally positive effect. Katharine Moxham, spokesperson for GRiD, commented: "Employers may have already seen the benefits to physical and...

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