Health data needed
Aon Hewitt’s Employee Benefits & Trends survey, which had responses from over 340 benefits and HR professionals in companies of all sizes, found that 70% of employers are not confident in the accuracy of their employee absence data.
6% reported ‘low’ confidence in the method used while 80% said
that they do not calculate their total cost of employee health.
This contrasts with a widely expressed desire to measure the return on their investment in health initiatives.
However, a third of those who do not currently measure the cost of health indicated that they would like to
monitor return on investment in this area.
Aon Hewitt’s Stephen Hackett said: “It is now
affordable for even the smallest organisations to measure employee health cost-effectively – and to put in
place actions to reduce their cost of health. The desire to do this is evident among the UK’s employers; they
just need the data to support them.”
