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The business case for improving your employees wellbeing

What is the most sustainable way to motivate and energise your team members? It’s simply to free them to express their natural talent in a stress-free way.

Publish health and wellbeing content on your company intranet to empower those who work so hard for you every day. Upload the The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library to your company intranet and show them how much you care.

The free resources on this webpage provide a taster of The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library, which contains dozens of articles, checklists, useful links, surveys and much more. It has all the information your people need to manage their wellbeing at work proactively.

The 30 original articles (all based on official sources) developed are the centrepiece of the content provided for your organisation’s intranet. All articles are short, punchy and packed with useful information. You can download 6 sample articles free of charge simply by scrolling further down this page.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines stress as: “…the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them.” Up to 80% of doctor’s visits are stress-related. 65% of people lose sleep due to stress.

Stress in the workplace is on the rampage.

The Economic Social and Research Council claims British employees take shorter lunch breaks, less holidays and work longer hours than continental Europeans. Work-related stress costs an estimated 12.8 million working days a year (HSE) and £3.7bn.

Why does your organisation need to do something about this?

In fact, companies are already bearing some of the major
costs of stress:


	60% of accidents at work may be stress-related.
	94% of employers consider absenteeism a significant/very significant cost.
	40% of job turnover is estimated as caused by stress. Replacing the average employee costs several thousand pounds.
	According to Peter Frost, Author of “Toxic Emotions at Work”: "Emotions tend to be contagious. Toxic ones leak out into the workplace affecting more than just the person afflicted. It can poison a team, a workplace, an organization."
	Insurance claims for stress-related industrial accidents are on the up.
	Compensation for musculoskeletal injury claims caused by RSI is rising.
	69% of employees would consider legal action against their employer, with 75% in the same survey saying they already have symptoms (ViewSonic survey).
	According to a Gallup survey of 450 companies in 124 countries, only 30% of employees feel actively “engaged” and happy in their work. That’s reflected in lost productivity.

In short, the hidden scourge of stress is doing serious damage to UK businesses.

Of course, companies already have a legal duty to safeguard their employees’ health…


	The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 require employers to assess the risks of stress-related ill health arising from work and to take measures to control the risk.
	The Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 state that employers should risk assess display screen equipment use.

So why isn’t more being done? One of the main gaps appears to be good information to empower employees to take control in order to manage and beat stress.

A booklet (“Your wellbeing at work”) published by London-based Positive Partnerships Ltd, addresses this need. In a concise format packed with well-researched tips, it provides 160 practical ways for individuals to manage stress in the workplace.

One of the main challenges of stress is that it’s a multi-headed beast. “Your wellbeing at work” is one of the few resources to address the problem with a holistic approach.

Tips cover areas such as lifestyle, healthy eating, positive communication, posture, useful “desk exercises”, personal organisation, work environment, commuting, sound sleep and much more.

Click here to see the booklet’s Introduction and Table of Contents (pdf)

The booklet is short enough to be absorbed quickly by busy people, presenting tips with credible supporting evidence. All are designed to be “time efficient” so they can slot into the busiest lifestyles with small adjustments to routine.

Helpful web links are provided to empower readers to find more detailed
information at will.

A wealth of practical knowledge has been packed into a light, envelope-sized format which slips effortlessly into any bag or pocket. It’s also available as an “e-booklet” to disseminate via your company intranet as part of The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library.

160 energising tips:

•	Feel revitalised
•	Achieve your career aims, healthily
•	Banish stress

Based on small adjustments
to your busy daily routine

This booklet is included within the library of health and wellbeing content developed by Positive Partnerships Ltd to help companies of all sizes tackle the scourge of work stress. There are also 30 articles for employees and a host of other resources.

Our goal is to provide you with the best health and wellbeing content available at the cheapest price. It is a complete toolkit to empower and motivate your colleagues, which you can upload to your company intranet for everyone to access. The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library comes in Word/pdf/Excel format for easy access.

Our friends at Peoplevalue (www.peoplevalue.co.uk), suppliers of innovative employee reward and benefits solutions to over 100 leading UK companies, have included this wealth of content to empower their users with solid information.

A taster of the material is provided below with 6 free sample articles (out of the 30 available in total) which you are free to download for your colleagues to benefit from:

Healthy lunch breaks click here
Tips to beat email stress click here
How to sleep as soundly as possible click here
Work to live or live to work click here
Overcome the stress of not enough time click here
Making the most of your time off click here

Companies as diverse as Norwich Union, BP and Rank Group have already published this information on their company intranets. Your organisation can too, simply by contacting us for a company intranet licence.

In addition to the 30 articles, we also include free health and wellbeing checklists for busy people. You may download and examine a couple of samples here:

Work Environment Enhancers Checklist click here
Fitness Improvers Checklist click here

And there is also a tool to help people in your company set annual work objectives consistent with a healthy lifestyle. Experts agree that a culture of employee wellbeing has to permeate your entire organisation to be effective. It is therefore useful to include a “wellbeing management” competency within your annual HR evaluation process.

To download your Annual Performance Evaluation including Wellbeing click here

Finally, we have also created 4 useful surveys for your employees to rate their own progress and work out their percentage “score”. The questionnaires cover the following areas: healthy diet, sleep, stress management and work-life balance.

We have again provided a free sample. To download the Stress Management Survey click here

Remember that all the above information – 30 articles, 5 checklists, 4 questionnaires, 1 e-booklet with 160 tips and 1 official links sheet, can all be added to your company’s intranet for a modest one-off licence fee which covers you in perpetuity. Everything is included within a single, low-cost package.

The full specification of the The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library stored on your company’s intranet is as outlined in the attached product summary. Please click here to examine it.

And remember that we now also provide 30 royalty-purchased images to accompany our material, absolutely free. You can use these to add life to the health and wellbeing section of your organisation's intranet.

Do get in touch by using the contact form below for further details.

By taking this step your business can potentially look
forward to:


	Lower absenteeism costs
	Faster return to work for employees who are genuinely off sick
	Protection from the risk of litigation and liability for compensation
	Reinforcement of your company’s health and safety policy
	Reduced accident risk
	Improved job commitment, satisfaction and staff retention
	Improved productivity
	Improved customer satisfaction and loyalty (see below)

Below are a few case studies of companies who have successfully done so:


	Prudential Insurance undertook a wellness programme resulting in identified absence levels dropping by 70%.
	A year-long US study reported that workplace wellbeing programmes can generate a return of investment of nearly 400% for employers.
	A Bristol University study showed that lunchtime exercise improves teamwork and energy levels in the whole office, for an average 15% productivity gain.
	Johnson & Johnson (USA) reported that its employees took 13 percent fewer sick days in their first year after joining an organized exercise program.
	London Underground’s “Stress Plan” has apparently achieved an 8-fold ROI.
	National Grid estimated that sickness costs it £35m a year and has since launched an employee wellbeing programme.
	Standard Chartered Bank has found that staff in its most “engaged” teams are 50% less likely to leave. These happy teams are also 15-20% more productive than the least in terms of profit growth.

Finally, the benefits of employee wellness can also positively impact your customers:


	Numerous empirical studies show a strong positive relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction.
	AC Neilsen (marketing research) has found that employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and financial performance are closely correlated.
	Sears (retail) has observed a link between improved employee and customer satisfaction to improved financial performance (Rucci, Kim, and Quinn 1998).
	Many hotel companies have found a similar relationship both anecdotally and statistically (see Rajul Chande’s “At Your Service” book via the website www.elitehotelier.com).
	Links between employees and customer satisfaction are especially critical in “high-involvement” professional service businesses.
	Professors Sasser and Heskett at Harvard Business School have found evidence that the most successful companies focus with “laser precision” on the staff behaviours that customers want.

Your investment in The Wellbeing @ Work Intranet Library is guaranteed to have far-reaching benefits. Energise and reward your colleagues with it today!

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