Balance | What does a 'healthier working life' look like?

By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits

The conversation about ‘good work’ has increased in recent years.

Employers are striving to provide it. Employees are striving to do it. All with the goal of enjoying a healthier working life. Why? Because there is plenty of evidence available now to show correlations between wellbeing, engagement and productivity. But what does a healthier working life look like?

In this article, we explore this question, utilising various stages of a hypothetical employee’s working life. At each stage, we discuss the challenges and how employers and employees might begin to overcome them, with help from Dr Julie Denning, Managing Director & Chartered Health Psychologist at Working To Wellbeing and Chair of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association.