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Can Improving Financial Wellbeing Create a More Productive Workplace?

08/03/2016

Published in 2014, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) study, Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?, recognised that employee wellbeing was increasingly a focus of government attention; and viewed as a legitimate target of government policy in its own right. The study argued that if improving employees' wellbeing is linked to improved workplace performance, policies targeting wellbeing would result in benefits to employers and benefits to employees, both in terms of future job prospects, but also through direct improvements in how employees feel at work.