United Kingdom: Wellness: 2018 Employee Benefit Trends
Mental health in the workplace is the top priority for almost three in five (60%) CEOs in the UK and is the area of employee wellbeing with which their Board is most concerned. This is according to the 2018 annual report, Employee Wellbeing Research 2018 from Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) in association with Punter Southall Health & Protection.
Just one in six (16%) employers have a defined mental health strategy in place, however over a third (37%) plan to introduce one in the next 12 months and a further quarter (26%) by 2020. This suggests that by the early 2020s more than three-quarters (78%) of UK companies will have a defined mental health strategy.