Health and safety leaders and their improvement initiatives are perceived positively by frontline workers, according to a new study, commissioned by global technology company, SafetyCulture. The study, which surveyed more than 2,000 UK workers in frontline and management roles across ...
Read More »Shared approach needed to better support workers’ wellbeing in a rapidly changing world
The lack of an agreed definition of wellbeing, and no shared way to quantify it or measure interventions to improve it, is holding employers back from supporting workers’ wellbeing better in the face of rapid change, finds new research undertaken ...
Read More »Record number of people off work with long-term sickness
The results of a new study into the impact of ill-health on the UK’s working population have been published by the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM). Following on from Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24th September), the report ‘Understanding Recent Trends in ...
Read More »Employers are reducing office space as workers still attend offices less than two days a week
Workers are still only coming into the office an average of 1.75 days a week, a study of 119 workplaces in 22 countries by AWA, a global workplace consultancy, has found. The responses, collated in April-May 2023 and representing organisations ...
Read More »Businesses suffer loss of almost a quarter of a billion pounds due to inefficient hand dryers
Inefficient hand dryers could be costing UK businesses up to £234 million per year, according to a new study by Initial Washroom Hygiene. Initial Washroom Hygiene researched 689 hand dryers that were photographed on walls in April 2023. Analysis of ...
Read More »Office landlords implement efficiency-boosting measures to cut energy costs
A new study has identified which energy-saving measures are the most widely used and which landlords are prioritising in the years ahead as ambitions for a net-zero commercial real estate sector become increasingly focused. The market research, which surveyed 250 ...
Read More »Wearables at work
PLP Architecture Partners Ron Bakker, Midori Ainoura and Bernard Storch, and PLP Labs team lead Alex Davidson describe the results of an innovative pilot study into the use of wearables at work The wearables market is expanding rapidly, as is ...
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