Money worries | Financial wellbeing: is your company disconnected?

By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing, Generali UK Employee Benefits

Money may not be able to buy you love, but worrying about it can certainly cause you problems at work. In fact, money worries affect the workplace performance of 77% of the UK workforce, or about 25 million people, according to Close Brothers’ UK Financial Wellbeing Index 2019.

Financial concerns also keep people off work, with Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures indicating they accounted for about a third of the 15.8 million days people took off work due to stress-related illness in 2016.

That’s around 5 million working days missed in just one year.