Wellbeing benefits difficult for 70% of employers to communicate

Towergate research shows

Jaskeet Briah
clock • 2 min read

Ensuring that communication around health and wellbeing support is relevant to employees is a difficulty for 70% of large companies, research by Towergate Health & Protection has found.

The intermediary surveyed 500 HR decision makers and found that 50% of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) felt the same. This takes the average number of employers struggling to make health and wellbeing communication targeted to specific groups in the workforce to 55%. The struggle in communicating support that is available to staff has come as many employees now work from home either some or all of the time, almost half (48%) of companies said. As such, 55%, of employers now concentrate more on digital health and wellbeing communications. Debra Clark, head of specialist co...

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