TRENDICATORS SPECIAL REPORT
HEALTH AND WELLBEING AT WORK 2021
Survey report
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
HEALTH AND WELLBEING AT WORK 2021
The CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. The registered charity champions better work and working lives and has been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years. It has more than 150,000 members across the world, provides thought leadership through independent research on the world of work, and o!ers professional training and accreditation for those working in HR and learning and development.
The CIPD's Health and wellbeing at work survey, in partnership with Simplyhealth, examines the practices organisations have to support people's health at work. It provides people professionals and employers with benchmarking data on important areas such as absence management, wellbeing benefits provision and mental health. The survey for this 2021 edition was conducted online and sent to people professionals and senior HR leaders in the UK. In total, 668 people responded.
Key Takeaways
About This Report
Building healthy workplaces is integral to the CIPD's purpose of championing better work and working lives, and the evidence presented here should enable organisations to help us fulfil that mission. This year, over 650 HR professionals took part in the survey, providing a valuable sample to inform our analysis.
This year's report is published over a full year since UK workplaces first rose to the enormous challenge of protecting their workforces in the face of COVID-19. Our findings show the pandemic has had a dramatic impact on organisations, prompting them to transform their working practices on an unprecedented scale to look after people's health, safety and wellbeing.
The NHS's rollout of the national vaccination programme is proceeding at scale in the UK, but COVID-19 is a global virus and will not disappear in the near future. As well as continuing to ensure workplaces are COVID-secure, organisations need to identify and manage the wider risks to people's health. The experience of the past year will have exacerbated – rather than alleviated – most of these challenges, including the pressure on many people's mental health.
In response to this continuing backdrop of uncertainty, the survey findings identify a number of priority actions for organisations, including the need to develop a strategic and holistic approach to people's health, safety and wellbeing. This approach should focus on prevention as well as providing effective support pathways for people if they become unwell. Organisations need to put in place a systematic framework, with tools to assess the main physical and psychological risks to people's health, so that they can target their activity where it's needed.
About the Publisher
The CIPD is the professional body for HR and people development. The registered charity champions better work and working lives and has been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years. It has more than 150,000 members across the world, provides thought leadership through independent research on the world of work, and o!ers professional training and accreditation for those working in HR and learning and development.
Publish Date
September 2021