Improving Business Health

Tough economic times mean that it is more important than ever to make your business efficient and effective. Stress, low morale and poor health all lead to lost productivity, low staff retention and higher levels of sickness absence.

Absenteeism: the facts

The UK economy loses 175 million working days due to sickness absence per year, at a cost of £13.4 billion
That’s 8.4 working days lost per employee per year, at a cost of £598 per employee per year
Staff turnover costs £34 billion, with 4.4 million people leaving their jobs per year
Stress leading to poor performance while at work is estimated to cost twice the amount of sickness absence and staff turnover combined

Figures from Wealth from Health, 2007

For every day that an employee takes off sick, the cost to the business is £75. These days soon add up: for a company with an average sickness absence rate of 3% employing 100 people, the annual cost of absence is about £60,000. Reducing sickness absence presents an opportunity for organisations to make significant savings.

Taking a preventive approach to mental health also presents a significant opportunity to reduce absence from work: 9.8 million working days were lost in Britain in 2009/10 due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety alone.

Reducing working-age sickness has the potential to save the UK up to £100 billion per year, around the size of the entire NHS annual budget.

How we can help

We help organisations to improve health in the workplace. Our dedicated team can help you to reduce employee absenteeism and improve the health and wellbeing of your staff.

Prevention is better than a cure – our services are designed to help you put in place practices that will reduce sickness absence happening in the first place, through improving awareness of health-related issues in the workplace, practical advice on reducing and dealing with stress, and positive, fun activities to help your staff work effectively together.

By investing a small amount into the health and wellbeing of your staff, you can reduce absenteeism, improve staff productivity and retention, and save your business money.

Why choose Health Works

We’re the experts: our experience in health and wellbeing goes back over nineteen years.
We’re flexible: our training and support is designed around you. We can also tailor-make training packages according to your organisation’s needs.
We’re comprehensive: we can work with you at all levels, from intense one-to-one support for individual staff, to helping you create a health strategy across the whole organisation.

We offer:

Healthy team building sessions
Absenteeism reduction training
Health consultation
Ongoing support

Introducing and marketing the concept of Health Works helping to reduce absenteeism in businesses.