Mental health

More than a third of UK employers say their staff are working longer and retiring later, yet most businesses remain unsure how to respond to the changing profile of...

Chronic illness has overtaken unemployment as the primary reason for economic inactivity across the UK, according to data analysis by employee benefits provider YuLife. Using 2024 data from the...

Employers with mobile or field workers, such as non office based engineers, site workers, contractors, and technicians, could be at risk of losing talent as research revealed that poorly...

As incoming employment rights spark further concerns about rising business costs, Duncan Brown asks, what’s the real cost of failing to treat people with dignity, respect and fairness at...

MetLife UK has extended access to its group life end-of-life services to include the parents and in-laws of employees with the benefit. The life and legacy services are provided...

Steve Herbert explores the growing pressure on organisations to end home working, and the very real risks HR faces in enforcing return-to-office mandates.  More than three years have passed...

More than three quarters (77 percent) of employers offer paid volunteering time to staff as a perk, but close to two fifths (38 percent) of employees never use it,...

Employers have confirmed their biggest concern for their workers is stress and anxiety related to work for the second year in a row, according to research from Grid. The...

As the UK basks in another scorching heatwave, Google searches for “sickness absence” have spiked 113 percent in the past 24 hours.  Provider YuLife, which first spotted the surge,...

Nine in ten British managers (90 percent) have said that paid bereavement leave should be a legal entitlement for all employees, a survey has revealed. The research from the...