For any organisation, large or small, the wellbeing of your people is key. Your employee wellbeing programme can help your people feel fit, well and fired up about staying healthy. The most effective wellbeing programmes work to carefully planned objectives, evolve with insight, and complement broader business plans. But it also needs to be a good fit your organisation too.
Why it’s beneficial to get expert help when setting or reviewing your wellbeing strategy
Whether your company is starting from scratch or reviewing existing initiatives, it’s important to get expert help. Careful consideration and review of your objectives, budget and timelines and getting to know your business well, can deliver a far more effective strategy.
Our AXA Health wellbeing consultants guide companies on wellbeing strategies every day, so they have the expertise to help you:
- know what works…. and of course, what doesn’t
- reach your goals
- get stakeholders buy-in
- keep your strategy sustainable over time
- optimise your budget.
Talk to us and we can work with your goals and plans and what you have already have in place and show you how to optimise it.
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Emerging themes that support a more impactful wellbeing strategy
It is extremely important to employers to improve employee’s health to help prevent sickness and also could put employers in a better position to control and forecast future costs and outcomes. There are some major trends that could put employers in a better position to control and forecast future costs and outcomes.
Our Employee Wellbeing Research 2025, in association with REBA (Reward & Employee Benefits Association) finds that employers are turning to more cost-effective, long-term strategies1.
- Health and wellbeing priorities are significantly shifting to prevention. Difficulties in accessing NHS care will have the biggest impact on reshaping workforce health and wellbeing strategies so the emphasis on prevention is paramount.
- As the trend for prevention grows, employees will be increasingly encouraged to take self-responsibility for their health. Employers can play an active role in improving health awareness, education and support behaviour change creating environments where employees can talk ownership of their health.
- Digital tools aid prevention as they enable fast, personalised access to medical care and services. In addition, digital tools could speed up employee health journeys.
- Improved data reporting across to help Human Resources teams to deliver actionable insights highlighting areas to focus on for better cost control.
- Organisations are strengthening their support for employers to better understand health of their employees by providing comprehensive health screening, condition-specific screening, digital tracking, assessment to better support neurodiverse colleagues, mental health assessments.
All of these initiatives aim to enhance workforce resilience, reduce absenteeism and support sustained productivity – providing both financial and operational benefits.
Source: AXA Health and REBA Insights Health and Wellbeing Research 2025. Find out more here