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Providing Support to the 'Britain's Healthiest Workplace' Competition
Nov 30, 2017
Health, wellbeing and productivity in the workplace
A Britain's Healthiest Company summary report
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This report aims to draw upon data collected during the 2014 Britain's Healthiest Company (BHC) competition in order to understand what drives productivity at work in the participating organisations and, in particular, to examine the relation between the health and wellbeing of staff and their resultant productivity. To understand this relationship, we look at the links between lost productivity in terms of presenteeism (being in suboptimal health at work) and absenteeism in association with a range of factors. These include:
- Job and work environment (e.g. stress and health-promotion interventions in the workplace)
- Personal (e.g. lifestyle risk-factors related to obesity, smoking and alcohol consumption)
- Health and physical risks (chronic conditions and mental health).
Using regression modelling techniques we establish associations between these factors and productivity loss in the workplace and compare our results to the wider literature.
The report is aimed at policymakers and practitioners and aims to contribute to the wider debate on the link between health, wellbeing and productivity at work.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Background
Chapter Two
Britain's Healthiest Company survey and how it compares to other UK data sources
Chapter Three
How we measure workplace productivity and its determinants
Chapter Four
The determinants of workplace productivity loss: empirical findings
Chapter Five
Discussion
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