When employers were asked about their role in employees’ return to work after illness, 82% agreed that they played an important part.
Yet according to researchers from Aviva only 5% of those employing more than 100 people don’t have set procedures in place to achieve this. And when we look at the larger employers, just 38% offer private healthcare.
The findings from Aviva’s January survey of just over 500 UK employers show quite a gap between aspiration and reality.
The reality is that although private healthcare can be seen as a perk, in actuality the ability to see a mental health professional, physiotherapist or private GP can often be a lot less expensive, and cause a lot less disruption, than having a staff member go off sick. Or, worse, leave on ill health grounds taking all their knowledge and expertise in the company with them.
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