Should HR managers care about employee health?

The fourth article in her series exploring the findings of the five components of the Adecco Institute's 'Demographic Fitness Survey', sees Donna Murphy discussing how much involvement HR professionals should have in health management at work.

Until now, managing an employee's personal health has been the concern of the employee and their health advisors, and mostly removed from the concerns of the workplace. Yet, a number of factors are changing that:

• Our work is increasingly overlapping into our personal lives




• As a population, we are ageing; the age of the average UK worker is now 39 years, up from 34 in 1971




• Health issues are increasingly recognised as having a measurable impact on productivity and profitability