Employer vaccination dilemma

Employers can’t force staff to have the vaccine, but they should encourage them to. Where do employers stand and what can they actually do? advohr’s Alison Gill looks at the problem and gives practical advice. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is new to us all...

Coronavirus conflict at work

advo hr’s Alison Gill addresses the conflict that COVID brings to the workplace and how to address the differing employee views and concerns. “Black Wednesday in 1992 saw interest rates to 15% and the great recession of 2008 which took the UK economy five years...

Dying of embarrassment

More than a third of Brits would be too embarrassed to visit the doctor if displaying bowel cancer symptoms, with over 65% not confident anyway in identifying what these symptoms are. The results of a new study, by Cromwell Hospital, found that 35% of Brits1 would be...

Employers need to act to support employee mental health wellbeing

One in four feeling ‘lonely and isolated’ during Covid with nearly 60% of young people reported anxiety and stress. The latest figures from the LV= Wealth and Wellbeing Monitor, which surveys 4,000 UK consumers, has revealed that a quarter of the general...

Online wellbeing: surge in virtual healthcare

There is a surge in the use of virtual health care since the beginning of lockdown with twice as many mental health appointments. Employee benefits provider, Unum, has seen more than a 100% increase in the number of mental health appointments booked each month through...