Wellbeing

Levels of personal wellbeing are strongly correlated to regional employment rates, findings from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.

Absence rates have returned to 2011 and 2010 levels averaging 7.6 days per employee, after falling slightly in 2012, the annual CIPD and Simplyhealth Absence Management survey has revealed.

Employers can be required to fund private medical treatment as part of a reasonable adjustment to help staff return to work, a court has ruled.

Employers should keep in touch with their staff when they are off sick to support a quicker and easier return to work, experts say.

A significant number (84%) of 18-24 year olds, dubbed the ‘iPosture generation' have admitted to suffering some incidence of back pain in the last 12 months, which experts have attributed to the rise in hand-held technology.

The UK is a 'nation of stressed staff' - with people eating lunch at their desks, working overtime and through holidays and sickness, according to new research.

Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits has confirmed it will be rolling out two significant improvements to its Physio Direct proposition in October.

Stress levels among GPs have reached the highest peak since 1998, according to research commissioned by the Department of Health.

Employers need to improve their infrastructure and increase engagement in order to boost the take up of cycle to work schemes.

The concept of wellbeing at work is not consistent across all European countries, yet country-specific differences should be acknowledged, according to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).