Workplace health and wellbeing review
Helping your employees thrive at work
The vision
The government’s Stevenson/Farmer Thriving at Work report states all organisations, whatever their size, must:
Address and prevent mental ill health
Be equipped with the awareness and tools to not only address but prevent mental ill-health caused or worsened by work
Support individuals
Be equipped to support individuals with mental health conditions to thrive, from recruitment and throughout their employment
Access timely support
Know how to access timely support to reduce sickness absence caused by mental ill-health
Bring the vision to life with Unum
Our wellbeing specialists conduct workplace health and wellbeing reviews for Group Income Protection customers. They review your current mental health strategy and offer personalised recommendations on how to better manage your employees’ wellbeing, including support for at least 12 months to help implement the changes we suggest. This helps you monitor and prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing. This is important — committing to staff wellbeing can support higher productivity1, reduced absenteeism and improved retention, providing a return on investment. Unum’s Health and Wellbeing Reviews are based on six standards we’ve created in line with the guidelines and principles outlined in the Thriving at Work report, as well as:
Our approach
Comprehensive consultation
Using guidelines from the above Thriving at Work report, plus the Mental Health at Work Commitment as a framework, we first establish everything you already have in place. This serves as a reference point for refinements and improvements.
Report
We then produce a workplace health and wellbeing report and an actionable improvement plan of areas to build on that’s bespoke to your workplace, so you know exactly where to start. This will include ensuring you are utilising our services to the best of your abilities.
Recommendations
The report is split into six core wellbeing standards based on those in Thriving at Work. We categorise these based on whether you’ve met, partially met or not met each standard before offering suggestions on how you can implement the changes we’ve identified to meet these standards.
Ongoing support
Building a workplace health and wellbeing strategy isn’t a once and done. That’s why we’re available for an entire year after we complete our report at every stage of the process. We offer follow-up consultations, progress reviews and advice on implementing and assessing each solution if you get stuck.
Real businesses, real people: stories that matter
A company that brings in a Unum Workplace Health and Wellbeing Review can see numerous benefits, not least improving the working environment that their people need in order to thrive.
Without a wellbeing policy, there’s a risk of high levels of presenteeism and absenteeism. Clear wellbeing parameters can support with health, happiness and productivity in the workplace and so are massively important for the modern working world. If you’re a Unum GIP customer, book yours using the form below.
Two employers with a sizable number of employees recently underwent a Unum Workplace Health and Wellbeing Review. Here’s what they had to say.
“I’d recommend that employers with services through Unum engage with the Rehabilitation team as much as possible — they are so knowledgeable in the topics they discuss and use a delivery style that’s informative, friendly and well-rounded Overall, Unum provides great support for both employers and employees.” — BBI Solutions
“Partnering with Unum to provide our employees with GIP has made a big difference to the way we approach absence management and employee wellbeing. We’ve really benefited from being one of Unum’s Premier accounts, which gives access to our Account Manager Scott. Alongside our dedicated Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant, Claims Assessor and Rehabilitation Wellbeing Consultant, he’s been instrumental in helping us use every added-value service Unum has.” — DataFi
Our successes in numbers
During the process, companies which complete a Workplace Health and Wellbeing Review see positive impacts that benefit both their employees and the business. These are based on Unum’s six standards for creating an optimal environment for employee health and wellbeing, created in line with the resources mentioned above.
For instance:
- Mental health and wellbeing strategy
Just 8% of companies had a mental health and wellbeing strategy at initial review; of the companies that completed a Workplace Health & Wellbeing Review, this stood at 64% at final review - Improved working conditions
At initial review, we found 63% of companies met standard four (having good working conditions, benefits and a positive work/life balance), a figure that rose to 88% among companies that worked with us throughout the year to complete their review - Effective people management
Only 5% of companies met the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development’s (CIPD’s) standards for effective people management at initial review; for companies that completed the process this rose to 44% at final review - Achieving all six standards
Very few (2.5%) of the companies achieved all six standards we measure them against at initial assessment; by final review, for companies that completed the process this stood at 40%Contact form
Contact usFind out more
Group Income Protection policyholders can contact us using this form to book a consultation or find out more about what’s involved in a Workplace Health and Wellbeing Review.
1 Based on a Unum-commissioned Censuswide survey 20th September 2023 – 21st September 2023 amongst a nationally representative sample of 4,035 employed people