{"id":16736,"date":"2021-10-26T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:37:21","slug":"is-your-workforce-healthy-enough-to-fix-britains-productivity-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/is-your-workforce-healthy-enough-to-fix-britains-productivity-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your workforce healthy enough to fix Britain\u2019s productivity problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW BOOK: Lessons from the pandemic on the value of workforce health<\/em><\/p>\n Why this book matters:<\/strong><\/p>\n With 57% of all long term sickness absence at work due to stress, anxiety and depression and Covid cases \u00a0and deaths the highest in Europe, workforce health has the potential to derail Britain\u2019s business recovery. Mental health, stress, musculoskeletal issues and chronic illness are the number one cause of absence from work and loss of productivity in most Western economies.<\/p>\n New book The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future<\/em>\u00a0takes a long hard look at the impact of ill-health on the work place and particularly on productivity. Workforce wellbeing has long been recognised as an important retention issue \u2013 but the authors argue that more businesses need to wake up to its substantial impact on productivity.<\/p>\n This important new book, from HR hard hitters Sir Cary Cooper and Stephen Bevan, explores how the Covid pandemic was the first time in living memory that the business community had to deal directly with the impact of a real-time threat to the health of their workforce. Suddenly workforce health was a strategic issue at the top of the senior management team agenda. HR and Occupational Health were catapulted to new prominence as businesses grappled to find ways to manage the health risk and keep their business moving forward.<\/p>\n Research and public awareness of the epidemic of physical and mental ill-health among working age people is growing, but understanding of its impact on company performance and productivity and possible solutions for the future is less advanced.<\/p>\n This timely and important book sets out why workforce health is such an important challenge for businesses, governments and for employees today and how this will increase in the future with an ageing workforce. It examines the new challenges of working from home, flexible working and the potential impact of these new ways of working on employees mental and muscular skeletal health.<\/p>\n An essential read for business leaders and HR professionals, The Healthy Workforce <\/em>offers practical guidance for professionals on getting started in the delivery of an effective and evidence-based workplace health plan which can enhance and sustain productivity growth in business now and for the future.<\/p>\n The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future<\/em><\/a> by Prof Sir Cary Cooper and Stephen Bevan is part of Emerald Publishing\u2019s The Future of Work<\/em> series. Out Nov 15 priced \u00a318.99.<\/p>\n Exclusive articles and interviews available:<\/strong><\/p>\n Prof Sir Cary Cooper and Stephen Bevan \u00a0are world leaders in the field of work, employment and HR. They are available for interview, expert comment or guest articles including:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n -ENDS-<\/u><\/p>\n For further information, a review copy, a guest article or an interview with the author, please contact:<\/p>\n Teresa Richardson teresa.richardson@thebookpublicist.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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