Workplace sickness

A quarter (25%) of employees that cycle to work feel motivated when they arrive in the office, according to research.

One of the largest NHS contractors for pain management is to target the private health insurance (PMI) and protection sectors in the new year.

The Association of British Insurers has revealed the make up of a new rehabilitation panel to provide a unified voice for insurers.

Some of the largest employers in Europe including Royal Mail Group, Barclays and BT have launched a programme to raise awareness of depression in the workplace.

The government's new independent assessment service (IAS) for checking employees who have been off work through ill heath for more than four weeks is likely to be delayed.

Just 15% of HR professionals consider absence management to be a main concern, yet almost half (49%) admit managing absence poses a problem for their companies.

All companies will now have access to the Business in the Community (BITC) Workwell benchmark enabling them to publically report employee engagement and wellbeing.

New research suggests tradespeople are amongst the nation's fittest workers, typically exercising for 16.4 hours each week, over six times the NHS' minimum recommendation of 2.5 hours exercise per week.

Professional staff are increasingly working more flexibly and remotely, according to poll of 4,000 businesses.

More than half of all employees have been made redundant or suffered long-term illness during their working life, MetLife Employee Benefits has found.