Britain’s healthiest workplaces crowned

Nomura International Plc, Adidas UK and Wellness International Ltd won first prizes in their categories of large, medium and small-sized firms respectively at Vitality’s Britain’s Healthiest Workplace awards on 17 January in London.

The companies registered the highest healthiest employee scores, which were compiled by sourcing data on a range of risk and productivity factors, including nutrition and physical activity.

These were combined with scores from the healthiest employer category, including on leadership and culture, and the availability and use of workplace wellbeing interventions, facilities and services.

The study is produced annually in partnership with Rand Europe and the University of Cambridge. Research took place between February and August 2018. It surveyed 26,432 employees across 129 companies.

Neville Koopowitz, CEO at VitalityHealth, said: “Vitality’s Britain’s Healthiest Workplace study offers a unique insight into the role employers play in influencing employee health.

“By prioritising and elevating employee engagement, health and wellbeing within their organisational strategies, we are seeing employers not just drive better health outcomes at an employee level, but unlock key business benefits.”

Nomura International, a Japanese-owned broker based in the City of London, said it has taken part in the study each year for six years and uses findings to tailor wellbeing services to their employees.

Nomura programme director, Ian Edwards, said: “Employees are key to our success and looking after their health also helps us retain talent and engage employees, all of which is important to the business.”