Workplace Wellbeing

How Wellbeing can impact you and your employees

Mental Health
Using conservative assumptions, Deloitte estimate a total annual cost to businesses of up £45bn, comprising £7bn in absence costs, £27bn – £29bn in presenteeism. Across industries, the highest annual costs of mental health per employee are in the finance, insurance and real estate industries (£3,300) and on average public sector costs per employee are slightly higher than private sector costs (£1,716 compared to £1,652). Deloitte also find that the costs to employers of poor mental health are disproportionately high among young employees, at 8.3% of average salary compared to an average across all age groups of 5.8%.
The results of Deloitte’s updated Return On Investment (ROI) analysis show a financial case in favour of employers investing in mental health. They now find that on average employers obtain a return of £5 for every £1 (5:2:1) invested.
Physical Activity
The UK’s Chief Medical Officer said if physical activity were a drug, we would refer to it as a miracle cure, due to the great many illnesses it can prevent and help treat. In England, close to one in two women and one in three men are not active enough for good health, costing organisations up to £6.6 billion per year.
There are many benefits to organisations that effectively enable their employees to be physically active. Greater Sport highlight improvements in aspects such as: teamwork, communication, turnover, sickness, productivity, confidence and increased energy in their employees, leading to an ROI of up
to 1:34!
Sleep
Did you know that over 200,000 working days are lost per year in the UK due to a lack of sleep? This costs organisations up to £30 billion per annum.
By helping employees to prevent being sleep deprived, intervene early, and to recover when they are feeling the negative mental and physical impacts of sleep deprivation leads to many wellbeing and work benefits. We can see this through many case studies from organisations such as Anglian Water, NATS, Unilever PLC, and Royal Mail.
Nutrition
Healthy nutrition covers many areas (including healthy eating, drinking enough water, and alcohol consumption) which all contribute to our overall health. When employees are not looking after their nutrition, it can negatively impact their work, with staff requiring more time off work due to illness, and decreasing productivity.
By supporting healthy nutrition and healthy weight management, organisations have seen many wellbeing and bottom-line benefits, as seen through case studies with organisations such as Thames Water.

Workplace Wellbeing Services

Rener Wellbeing Ltd provide bespoke wellbeing services to the business community.

They are a London based workplace wellbeing consultancy, who have worked with organisations such as WeWork, Metro Bank, Priory Group’s largest hospital – Kneesworth House, Loughborough University, and Culture Trip. They have three main services:

Wellbeing Consulting
No matter where you are on your organisation’s wellbeing journey, Rener Wellbeing will work with you to create and/or improve a bespoke wellbeing strategy that fits your company’s culture and addresses your employees’ unique needs, leading to sustainable impacts and ROI. Their expert consultants follow a tried and tested four step process.
Bespoke Wellbeing Workshops
Rener Wellbeing design and run tailor made workshops to meet your organisation’s needs. Some of their more popular workshops are: Manager Wellbeing Training, How to Develop your Own Wellbeing Action Plan and Wellbeing Champion Training.
1:1 Wellbeing Support
Renner Wellbeing’s five stage 1:1 wellbeing support process helps individuals to sustainably improve their overall wellbeing.

Read about how their bespoke wellbeing strategy they developed and still implement for Shift 8 Limited not only made their employees happier and healthier, but lead to significant bottom line benefits, leading to an ROI of 1:250!

Charlotte Wiseman, an applied Positive Psychology and Leadership Consultant known for her pioneering work in mental fitness in the workplace, below we have included our work in partnership with her.

Mental Health Blog

It’s important that employee’s have all the up-to-date information they need regarding their mental health in the workplace. These blog posts by Charlotte Wiseman are digestiable pieces of writing that could be read over a lunch-time break.