What can your business do now?
Access practical tools with recommendations for your organisation across the Work Health Index's four chapters, including actions to take, case studies from other businesses, and readily available support.
HSE has reported that since 2019 there has been a 40% increase in working days lost due to poor ill-health due to work-related stress.
Mental health alone costs UK employers up to £45bn each year. Mental and musculoskeletal health are the biggest health issues and cost faced by employers.
Health interventions taken by business can account for 10-20% reduction in the workforce disease burden by 2030, generating £60bn for the UK economy.
Access practical tools with recommendations for your organisation across the Work Health Index's four chapters, including actions to take, case studies from other businesses, and readily available support.
The CBI has curated readily available resources to support your business on the journey to a healthier, happier and more productive workforce. Use the timeline below and filter by WHI chapters (Work, Live, Move, Thrive) to access the most relevant information for your firm.
Government response: Health is everyone’s business
The role of pension contributions in explaining inequalities in depressive symptoms
Occupational health factsheet from the CIPD
Job design, employment practices and well-being: a systematic review of intervention studies
Factsheet on job design from the CIPD
Understanding and measuring job quality from the CIPD
The CIPD on health and wellbeing at work
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on Organisational culture
The CIPD’s hub of resources on organisational culture and behaviours
The Centre for Ageing Better’s: Working well? How the pandemic changed work for people with health conditions
What does the quality of work mean for our health?
The role of employers from the Centre for Progressive Policy
Gallup: It's Time to Synchronize Your DEI and Wellbeing Strategies
The reasons for workers aged over 50 years leaving employment
The Centre for Progressive Policy: mobilising private pension wealth for economic renewal
GOV.UK: Employing disabled people and people with health conditions
GOV.UK's Health Adjustment Passport
Miscarriage support from the Miscarriage Association
Supporting staff on their fertility journey
GOV.UK's guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
GOV.UK's guidance on expenses and benefits: medical or dental treatment and insurance
The flu vaccination: read who should have it and why
How to support employees going through fertility treatment in the workplace?
The BBC - How fertility became a workplace perk
Macmillan - Training and support for employers
The CIPD: How fertility issues can affect employees
The CIPD: Prevention is better than cure
The CIPD: The majority of working women experiencing the menopause say it has a negative impact on them at work
The CIPD - Guidance for Managing Drug and Alcohol Misuse at Work
The CIPD - One million more older people need to be in work by 2022
Resources for managing and supporting employees experiencing domestic abuse
The benefits of an Employee Assistance Programme
Group Income Protection
The Kings Fund - Time to Think Differently: long term conditions and multimorbidity
Expenses and benefits: bikes for employees from HMRC
GOV.UK - Health matters: getting every adult active every day
Workplace health: applying All Our Health from the government
NICE - Guidelines on physical activity: walking and cycling
NICE – Physical activity in the workplace
Live Well from NHSE
NHS Employers - NHS health and wellbeing framework
Read UK Active’s report on The Active Workforce
The Health and Safety Executive on stress and mental health at work
Find out more about mental health at work
How to support the financial wellbeing of your employees and how debt can affect your people
StepChange - Cost of living hub
CBI - Keep mental health front of mind: how firms can prioritise employees’ mental health
BITC - Mental health for employers toolkit
Resources on employee financial wellbeing from the CIPD
CIPD – Wellbeing at work
Aviva - Financial wellbeing in the post-pandemic workplace
MHAW - Building mental health in construction
MHAW - Mental health for small businesses
MHAW - Mental health in the financial sector
MHAW - Mental health in the legal profession
NHSE - Having safe and effective wellbeing conversations
Money Helper - What are health cash plans and are they worth it?
The Centre for Ageing Better - How the pandemic changed work for people with health conditions
The mindfulness initiative