Businesses 'may require workers to look after own wellbeing"
Commercial insurance
24th June 2009
Companies may encourage their staff to look after their own wellbeing in the future, an expert has suggested.
Charles Cotton, adviser for performance and reward at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), claimed that businesses may concentrate on prevention in order to reduce spending on health services.
Mr Cotton was commenting on data from Employee Benefits compiled by Simplyhealth Healthcare Research, which revealed that 14 per cent of companies now health cash plans to workers and spending on the employee healthcare benefit has risen by 180 per cent over the past 12 months.
The study by Employee Benefits and Simplyhealth Healthcare also found that 72 per cent of firms polled believed that workers should be responsible for their own wellbeing, although 22 per cent of respondents plan to increase healthcare benefits within the next year.
According to Mr Cotton, bosses' attitudes towards encouraging employees to be healthy is likely to change now that they "realise the proportion of their companies' revenues that are being spent on healthcare benefits".
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