Expert opinions

Kate Platts uncovers the wellbeing and productivity benefits that recent advancements in health technology can have on employees.

Group Director of Research and Innovation, Kate Platts, is joined by experts to discuss challenges and solutions for non-desk-based workers. 

Our Wellbeing Trends report explores emerging workplace wellbeing trends to help managers and HR teams support their people in 2025.

Cathy Lawson, an experienced Mental Health First Aid Trainer, explores how businesses can provide their managers with the skills needed to develop positive relationships and initiate discussions about mental health.

With presenteeism on the rise, how can employers mitigate the causes of long-term sickness, so they don’t become causes of long-term absence?

Active Spaces encourage your employees to move more and perform at their best, allowing them to take regular active breaks.

Three key takeaways from Oxford University’s research on the effectiveness of workplace wellbeing programmes and what it means for businesses.

Work-life balance is a top priority for workers, and flexible working helps people fit work around their lives — not the other way around.

Our Wellbeing Trends report explores emerging workplace wellbeing trends to help managers and HR teams support their people in 2024.

Exploring the latest data, research and search trends to help businesses get a head start on workplace health and wellbeing in 2024.

How do you know if your wellbeing program is helping your people be healthier and more productive — and how it’s impacting business outcomes?

DEI policies should help people feel supported no matter who they are or how they work, so how can leaders address the real challenges that colleagues are facing?

Our wellbeing trends report explores health and wellbeing hot topics and search trends to give businesses a head start on workplace wellbeing in 2023.

Employees now expect benefits like wellbeing support and flexible working as standard, so SMEs must play to their strengths to attract job seekers.

Many workplace wellbeing initiatives take time to get off the ground. Try these tips to boost engagement and help your people build positive habits.

These principles of good leadership practice could help you build a culture of wellbeing and make your organisation a healthier place to work.

With employees often feeling reluctant to change, how can employers help their people engage with wellbeing both in and outside the new-normal workplace?

Workers are now expecting more than just a standard salary and benefits package, so how can employers connect with candidates’ new priorities?

For those struggling with the after-effects of Covid infection, fatigue can be debilitating. How can employers support their people when they return to work?

83% of job changers say their employer could make changes to convince them to stay, so what support can HR teams provide to keep our best people on board?

With 51% of employees anxious about going into the workplace, there’s one thing HR can do to make the return a success — and that’s to listen.

The end of lockdown provides an opportunity for business leaders to be proactive, using employee feedback and wellbeing support to drive culture change.

The global health crisis has started a conversation that’s been well overdue – it’s time to start seeing wellbeing as a critical investment, not an expense.

Read our in-depth wellbeing index report on the state of the nation’s wellbeing, both at home and in the workplace.

Businesses need to be able to think creatively and strategically in order to create a new way of working that can flex with the times.

From shops reopening to EU countries lifting border controls, we’re thinking about going “back to normal” following the coronavirus outbreak.

Whether it’s a new job or a new way of working, something difficult or something positive, change can be tough and may take its toll on our mental health.

Leading a 100-year-old business comes with responsibility. Find out what I’ve learned as a business leader to create conditions for success.

Our CEO, Dave Capper, talks about the pandemic panic surrounding the current coronavirus outbreak.

Our CEO Dave Capper explains the link between active employees and the bottom line and why businesses can’t afford to ignore physical wellbeing

“The decade of proactive, predictive, and personalised prevention” – the headline of a government consultation vision for preventative health.

What really is organisational culture and why is it so important, and more importantly how can HR drive positive cultural change?

Two in five employees feel their company doesn’t support wellbeing, meaning many employees aren’t speaking out when they are stressed.

The future of workplace fitness is changing those leading the way are looking to more dynamic solutions – it’s not all about having a large corporate gym.

Prevention is better than cure. A healthy workforce is a more productive workforce, with less sickness and lower absence rates, contributing to higher organisational success.

Our Head of Coaching, Mark Pinches, explains how to reduce absenteeism by creating a working environment where employees thrive, and therefore be less likely to pull a ‘sickie’.

When employees are intrinsically motivated they’re enjoying what they do and employers can use this to create an engaged workforce.

Mark Pinches, our Head of Coaching outlines 5 simple mindfulness exercises you can carry out at work to help reduce stress and increase productivity and focus

Our Chief People Officer, Vicky Walker, explains 11 top tips towards creating a culture of employee engagement.

A mental health day is when employees take sick leave to manage their mental wellbeing. Here we outline 5 ways to support employee self care in the workplace.

How to develop a mental health return to work plan to support employees with mental illness, and raise awareness of mental health in the workplace.

Mark Pinches, our Head of Coaching, identifies 10 steps towards building resilience to cope with work related stress and avoid burnout.

The sudden onset of darker nights can have a negative effect on employee productivity levels, here we take a look at 5 ways to stay productive at work this winter.

Our research shows that exhaustion at work is a real issue – over 1 in 10 working Brits have taken a nap at work, and almost half regularly turn up to their job too tired to work.

Mental health at work – it’s a subject we talk openly and honestly about at Westfield Health. Our recent survey of working UK adults found that 86% believe that companies are not doing enough to support them with work-related mental health issues.

Physical Activity and Sport is a good wellbeing investment – and we can prove it says Tim Copley, Director of Insight and Performance at London Sport

We’ve put together our top 5 tips on how to be an approachable line manager so you can support your team’s mental health.

December is here and we’re spending more, eating more, trying to get everything done – but sleeping less. Westfield Health’s tips on how to get quality sleep over the festive period.

Underneath the glistening tinsel, carefully wrapped gifts and turkey basting, Christmas can be the root cause of a lot of stress for many people.

What springs to mind when you think about Christmas? Presents? Sleigh bells? Tinsel? But what’s the thing we all look forward to the most? You guessed it – the food!

It’s been really great to see health and wellbeing being celebrated across Great Britain this week, with millions of employees taking part in activities to enhance people’s understanding of health and wellbeing at home, work and in everyday life.

James Wilson, AKA The Sleep Geek, writes about how children’s sleep is the key to a restful night.

Rob Copeland, Professor of Physical Activity and Health at The Centre for Sport & Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University, talks about the major health benefits that you can gain from just 10 minutes of brisk walking per day.

James Wilson, AKA The Sleep Geek, talks about the Sleep 101 sessions he ran for staff at Westfield Health.

James Wilson, AKA the Sleep Geek, shares his thoughts on the link between a good night’s sleep and mental health.

James Wilson, AKA The Sleep Geek, explains why he wanted to work with Westfield Health.

Steve Purdham, founder and inventor of 3Rings UK, a smartplug designed to help families care for their elderly or vulnerable relatives living independently at home, gives his top tips for entrepreneurs looking to start their own business.

Here Sport and Exercise Psychologist, Doctor Joanne Butt talks about key strategies that can translate into a work environment to help employees perform under pressure.

Research conducted by Westfield Health is shedding some light on our mental health and resilience in the workplace.

To mark Time to Talk Day, our CEO, Dave Capper, shares a personal story of how he was having a difficult time in his life.

Along with his team, Keith Tharby, Director of Workforce Development at Boston College, has been particularly successful in integrating health and wellbeing into his organisation. Here, he shares their award winning HR strategy.

Knowing how to maintain a healthy posture is really important if you want to prevent musculoskeletal injuries and stay pain free. Chartered physiotherapist Jane Morgan explains how to adopt a good sitting posture.

Our recent survey found that one in three motorists (31 per cent) refuse to drive at night, while more than half of Britain’s 34 million motorists admit they struggle to see when driving after dark.