REBA/AXA PPP healthcare Employee Wellbeing Research 2020

The Covid-19 crisis of 2020 concertinaed a decade worth of ongoing workplace trends into just a few weeks. Those running employee wellbeing strategies found their work front and centre to keep workforces coping month after month during the most extreme collective change since the two world wars.

Growing trends picked up by REBA's annual Employee Wellbeing Research, now in its fifth year, have accelerated rapidly. Already, employers were concerned at how hard organisational change was hitting employee wellbeing. This research, conducted before the crisis, found that the share of employers citing organisational change as a risk to wellbeing increased 235% between 2019 and 2020. Linked to this, resilience/mental health workshops were the services set to see biggest growth within wellbeing strategies.