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Mental Wellbeing
Dr Keith Grimes shares his personal experiences of reaching a point of occupational burnout. With a focus on the importance of nurturing a culture of openness, Dr Grimes breaks the stigma, encouraging others to seek support and sharing what helped him on his journey back to health.

Mental Wellbeing
Exploring the importance of creating a safe space for employees to talk about their mental health, this blog supports the Samaritans’ ‘Talk to Us’ campaign. Highlighting the key features of our Employee Assistance Programme, we define ways employers can support their employees’ mental health and wellbeing, boosting resilience, productivity and happiness.

Employee Wellbeing
Part two of our ‘Workplace Wellbeing Made Simple’ blog series goes into more detail on financial, physical, and mental wellbeing. We’ll reveal the different employee benefits you can use to support employee wellbeing and boost employee engagement, how to get your benefits offering off to the best start and ways to make them cost-effective.

Employee Engagement
An unengaged employee may never have felt loyalty to a business, doing their job and nothing more. A disengaged employee was once engaged with and passionate about their role and employer. Read on to learn how to re-engage your disengaged employees to boost motivation, loyalty, and retention.

Employee Wellbeing
Workplace wellbeing is essential for any business that wants to get the best from its people, make a genuine and positive impact, and secure its future. Search the term ‘employee wellbeing’, and you’ll be inundated with information. That’s why we’re simplifying workplace wellbeing across a two-part blog series, with this article focusing on the very first steps to take.

Employee Engagement
Attracting the right people to bring the best out of your workforce requires time and effort. You need someone great for the business and who will also manage with empathy, encouraging their teams to thrive. This article will give you seven effective tips for attracting the best managers, broken down into two sections. The first will focus on the initial talent attraction stage, and the second will focus on ensuring you’re offering the role to the right person.

Financial Wellbeing
Discover how financial wellbeing benefits can boost engagement and productivity.

Employee Wellbeing
It’s International Men’s Health Week (MHW), and the week-long campaign aims to increase awareness of preventable male health problems, support men and boys to make healthier lifestyle choices and encourage males to be proactive and aid early detection of illness. Whilst this article focuses on burnout and absenteeism across the board, we’ll start by recognising why the work of MHW is so essential.

Physical Wellbeing
It’s Bike Week 100, so we’re dedicating more blog space to addressing the importance of cycling. In the first of this week’s blogs, we explored why our Cycle to Work scheme is such an impactful employee benefit, stretching salaries, saving businesses money, and improving physical and mental health.
Today, we’re focusing on how Cycle to Work and Social Value come together to help you become a socially conscious employer and strengthen your organisation’s social value for our people, partners, places, and planet.

Employee Engagement
Are you researching what employee benefits to offer to your workforce? One tip from us... go streamlined! Read on to discover how to embed a streamlined solution that gives your people more of what matters and opens up a world of opportunities for your business.

Employee Engagement
What does community spirit have to do with the employee experience? Quite a lot.
By 2025, Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce, and they’re looking for socially responsible employers. Read on to discover how to achieve this.

Financial Wellbeing
Using our exclusive Money Mastery research, we explore the state of employee financial wellbeing and its impact on your business. To gather our exclusive data, we interviewed over 2,000 UK employees and over 500 HR professionals, creating a holistic picture, including their employees’ concerns and expectations. During this blog, we’ll use this research to explore why it pays to improve financial resilience in your workplace.

Mental Wellbeing
There are times of the year when employee mental wellbeing needs additional support, such as when the January blues hits. Focusing on mental wellbeing throughout the year can create resilience in your people when they need it most. Read on and take crucial steps to assess their mental health, identify concerns and provide support.

Physical Wellbeing
Have you heard about Online GP, our new, inclusive, and cost-effective physical wellbeing benefit significantly impacting businesses and employees? Read on to discover the world of opportunities Online GP can create for your people and business.

Reward & Recognition
Stress is a hot topic, no matter the time of year, but with April dedicated to Stress Awareness, it’s good to keep the momentum going. During this blog, we'll uncover what factors are increasing your employees' stress levels, and the role recognition plays in alleviating it.