Employees feel that their workplace has changed over the past year
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Employees feel that their employer cares less about their health and wellbeing than they did a year ago
The study, carried out by healthcare provider Simplyhealth, found that nearly one in five employees feel that their workplace has changed over the past year and that employers now put productivity before their employees health and wellbeing.
However, staff feel that this shouldn’t be the case. More than a third of employees felt that health and wellbeing was most important at work, ahead of career progression opportunities.
The study found that employers felt that their health and wellbeing was so important, that one in ten of those questioned admitted that they had previously left an organisation where they didn’t feel that their employer valued their wellbeing.
Nick Kemsley, Co Director of the Centre for HR Excellence at the Henley Business School, says, ‘Volume of work and a change in the way that employers are managing health and wellbeing issues appear to be impacting employees’ views. As structures become ever leaner, and expensive external recruitment is deferred, employees have more work to do. A rebalancing by employers from financial to non financial vehicles for supporting health and wellbeing could be behind this difference in views.’
By Lauren King
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