Exclusive | Ex-Morrisons CHRO: 'HR has ghettoised a number of issues'

It would not be wrong to say many businesses have a disconnect between how they perceive their implementation of wellbeing initiatives and the actual implementation itself.

A Reward Gateway survey from 2017 acutely highlights this gulf. The benefits experts found that whilst over half of employers believe their company shows they care about employees mental, physical and financial wellbeing, only 14% of employees say that their company couldn’t do more for them.

Yet – and this is a counterfactual, with a certain amount of risk attached (HR Grapevine apologises in advance) – if wellbeing was always considered a cog critical to every business delivery process, would this disconnect exist?

It’s difficult to imagine that it would. In what world would devastating feedback on a critical business mechanism exist without immediate rectification action – and business leaders getting involved, too?