Every year the UK workforce wastes 17.5M hours of work on financial stress. Neyber (a UK financial services provider) surveyed 10,000 UK employees and released some interesting information regarding their finances. 67% of the respondents believed that their employers do not care about their financial well-being. Over 5,000 employees even …
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Wellbeing In The Workplace: A Winning Idea
According to Tilly Hetherington – Operations Executive at CVWOW, wellbeing is increasingly featuring on the agenda of employers and employees alike, with countless studies indicating a direct correlation between the happiness of a workforce and the subsequent success of the business. As a result, many organisations already have structured wellbeing strategies in …
Read More »Life in the UK 2016 | National Wellbeing update
Hanna Wheatley, puts into perspective the ONS latest Measuring National Wellbeing update – Life in the UK 2016 to tell us how society is doing. It aims to provide a view of progress than measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can do alone – being just a number representing …
Read More »INTERACTIVE MAP: Money makes the world go round, but a perfect measurement of Wellbeing does not exist | Create your Better Life Index with Social Progress Imperative
Jasper Bergink puts into perspective the European Commission expert conference on ‘beyond GDP’ that ties up with his article in Next Generation for Europe magazine NGE Magazine 1. In the conference, Enrico Giovannini, a former Italian Minister and OECD Chief Statistician, contested that the ‘battle of measurement’ has been won. In comparison to …
Read More »VIDEO & Research: Bhutan |The Happy City bases its policy on Gross National Happiness
Jasper Bergink, contests that the assumption is that when a country becomes richer, its citizens will be better off. But is that the case? Research shows that the Western world is a lot richer than fifty years ago. At the same time, we are hardly any happier than in the …
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