Winckworth Sherwood was pleased to recently release our research report, Wellbeing Strategies: Effective in Managing Sickness Absence? Insights and Recommendations for Employers, in which we sought to understand whether there was an increased acceptability regarding taking time off work and what more employers could do to promote wellbeing in the workplace and prevent sickness absence.
We commissioned a survey of over 1,000 employees and 250 senior HR leaders from 30 April to 7 May 2024. We asked what employers and employees feel are the key factors for promoting wellbeing in the workplace; what strategies, benefits, and initiatives employers actually have in place; whether “wellbeing washing” was taking place with employers giving the appearance of caring about wellbeing but not actually implementing meaningful strategies; and whether employers could be more effective in their wellbeing offering in order to improve the health of their employees.
The findings and insights in the report have been covered by a number of media outlets, including:
- Personnel Today – Sickness absence seen as more acceptable than five years ago
- HR Magazine – Productivity drives increased wellbeing support, employers say
- People Management – Is your firm guilty of ‘wellbeing washing’?
- Insight – As sickness absence rises, firms indulge in ‘wellbeing washing’
- The HR Director – Signs wellbeing washing, as sickness absence soars
- HR News – Research highlights risk of well-being washing as sickness absence soars
- Facilitate – ‘Wellbeing washing’ more prevalent within businesses despite increased support
- Workplace Wellbeing Professional – Research highlights risk of wellbeing washing as sickness absence soars
- FM Business Daily – UK employers grapple with effectiveness of Wellbeing Programs despite high sickness absence rates
- C&IT World – Best way to promote employee wellbeing revealed
Download the Report – Wellbeing Strategies: Effective in Managing Sickness Absence?