Towergate Research: Strategic insights into workforce wellbeing and employee benefits
The report by Towergate Employee Benefits, based on a survey of 500 UK HR decision-makers, explores how employers communicate health and wellbeing support in the workplace.
Key Insights:
- Widespread Monitoring: 81% of employers report having a strong understanding of absence, indicating established tracking systems.
- Wellbeing Concerns: Mental health (51%) and physical health (49%) are the top concerns for employers for their employees.
- Proactive Strategies: 59% of employers use wellbeing initiatives to prevent absence, showing a shift toward data-informed, preventive care models.
- Business Impact: when asked about the issues currently causing problems in their business employers citied quiet quitting (26%), turnover (23%), and presenteeism (17%). Half of employers acknowledge that their focus is currently pulled towards other areas within the business – not the health and wellbeing of their workforce.
- Future Outlook: Employers foresee mounting difficulties in recruiting (47%), retaining (44%), and engaging (37%) employees in the next 12 months, reinforcing the importance of integrated absence and wellbeing strategies.
Read the full report to uncover all the findings.
Supplied by REBA Associate Member, Towergate Employee Benefits
With 22 years’ experience, we are one of the UK’s largest independent employee benefits advisers.
