Employee Health Facts

• Employee absence is a significant cost to 90% of businesses
• Health & Wellbeing is now a core issue for top 100 FTSE companies
• Your staff, on average, cost you £659 EACH per year as a result of absence
• Health & Wellbeing is now considered as one of the TOP FIVE boardroom issues
• The indirect cost of sickness could equate to over £1800 per employee per year
• 83% of employees consider an employer’s attitude to health an important factor when applying for work
• 97% of HR professionals believe stress at work is the biggest threat to the future health of the UK workforce
• Absence from work is reportedly costing UK businesses £13.2billion per year
• Employee absence equates to between 2-16% of annual salary bill
• 7.2 days is the average number of sickness days per employee (private sector)
• 9.8 days is the average number of sickness days per employee (public sector)
• 36% of employers predicted that the health of UK workers would decline in the next five to ten years
• Stress has now passed backache and musculoskeletal as the biggest single source of sickness absence
• The average absence duration from Stress related illness is 30.9 days
• Each day SIX people leave their jobs due to an RSI Injury
• One third of workplace absence is related to injuries caused by poor posture
• 78% of employers experience difficulties retaining staff
• Employees who are dehydrated will have reduced concentration and performance!
• Absence due to mental health issues is 7.5 times longer than physical illness

Please contact us to see how we can help your business improve employee health levels!