Health and well-being at work: a survey of employers

The Health and Well-being Survey of Employers was jointly commissioned by the Cross-Government Health, Work and Well-being Strategy Unit and the UK Department for Work and Pensions. Between February and May 2010, 2,250 British employers were interviewed. The employer survey was commissioned to provide new evidence to address gaps in knowledge about: employers' perceptions of the importance of work to health and health to work and to what extent investment in health and well-being was deemed a priority; the promotion of health and well-being at work through the availability of health and well-being initiatives or support; evidence of how organisations engaged with their staff, by exploring the methods used to communicate with the workforce and to what extent organisations acted on employee feedback; measures of business productivity, namely incidence and management of sickness absence, and measures of labour turnover; and information regarding employers' occupational sick pay policies.

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