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Work, health and wellbeing: building the case for wellness

Flag for UK The UK Government on July 8th 2013
Department for Work and Pensions
This report considers the business and economic case for employers to invest in staff wellness programmes.

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Cited by 10 other policy documents (8 of them are from other policy sources)

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Time cost associated with smoking at work highlighted by baseline survey of employees participating in a workplace smoking cessation programme
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Padraic J. Ryan et al. 2006
Research shows that smokers cost employers 64 minutes a day in lost productivity. 13
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13. Ryan and Crampin (2006). Time cost associated with smoking at work highlighted by baseline survey of employees participating in a workplace smoking cessation programme. Occupational Medicine 56:510. http://occmed.oxfordjournals.org
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Validity of the HSE stress tool: an investigation within four organizations by the Corporate Health and Performance Group
Occupational Medicine (Oxford University Press (OUP))
Chris Main et al. 2005
While hard data on the costs of presenteeism in the UK is unavailable at this time, preliminary evidence suggests that presenteeism could cost employers 2 to 7 times more than absenteeism. 20
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20. Main, C; Glozier, N; Wright, I (2005). Validity of the HSE stress tool: an investigation within four organizations by the Corporate Health and Performance Group. Occupational Medicine 2005;55:208–214
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