Workplace wellbeing

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.

By improving health and wellbeing at work, you’re helping to create a more motivated, engaged and high performing workforce – resulting in greater 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’.

How does employee wellbeing impact productivity? Here we explore how you can increase employee performance and productivity through creating a culture of health and wellbeing

When employees are intrinsically motivated, it means they are doing their job because they truly enjoy it, and employers can use this to create a productive and 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 Human Resources and Wellbeing Manager, 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.

Find out how to manage mental health in the workplace and how to help your employees feel more comfortable about disclosing mental health issues at work.

What is a sedentary lifestyle and how can we overcome inactivity in the workplace? We outline 6 top tips to be more active at work.

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.

It can be challenging to get everything done before you go on holiday, but it’s important to learn how to switch off while you are away.

The health and wellbeing of employees is directly linked to their productivity. A happy and healthy workforce is a more productive workforce.

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.

Read about the results of our latest national survey, which investigates how working adults in the UK think wellbeing should be funded.

The National Health Service turns 70 in 2018, and Westfield Health celebrates reaching 100 the following year.

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.

Our Head of HR Fiona Lowe discusses the key findings from a recent roundtable discussion on how to win the business case to invest in employee health and wellbeing at the EB Connect Conference in London.

Research conducted by Westfield Health is shedding some light on our mental resilience in the workplace, and the findings indicate that the problems surrounding mental health at work are actually much bigger than people might first think.

We all know how hard it is to fit exercise into a busy schedule, but why not try and squeeze more walking into your working day?

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.

We’ve all been stressed at different points in our lives, and over 55% of people find work more stressful than relationship, health and financial problems. Stephanie Davies, CEO of Laughology, shares her tips for creating a stress free life and workplace.

We’ve recently adopted a new approach to keeping Britain’s workforce fit and healthy. Our Head of HR Fiona Lowe shares her tips for HR managers looking to support the health and wellbeing of their employees.

We think it’s time to recognise that prevention and early intervention is always better than cure, and that a little TLC can deliver big dividends in ROI.

Mental health has long been a taboo subject, seen as a stigma by those that suffer, and a ‘sensitive issue’ for employers. Paul Shires discusses how employers can help their employees to recognise their symptoms and seek appropriate help.

It’s the start of week three of our marketers’ sugar free challenge. Anna Hopwood keeps us up to date on the team’s progress and shares her thoughts on her experience so far.

When you’re considering introducing health and wellbeing benefits for your workforce, how and why do you make your decision? Is your choice ruled by your head or your heart?

The media has been full recently of how treatment for mental health is the poor relation of physical disorders. So the announcement this week of the NHS’s first targets for mental health waiting times should be welcome news.