How Occupational Health boosts recruitment & retention for SME's...

Currently recruitment and retainment for workforces is rather difficult due to demanding costs of living, sickness, and shifts in priorities. For small to medium enterprises (SMEs), it’s more of a struggle due to size and naturally lower budgets…

That’s where UKIM Occupational Health On-Demand comes in…

Our On-Demand services are designed to help those who need occupational health as a pay-as-you-go service, as and when it’s needed. The services with On-Demand include, occupational health assessments, pre-placement assessments, physiotherapy treatments, and counselling. Covering a wide range of healthcare needs, we can ensure that SMEs have the necessary support to keep their workforces healthy, productive, and full.

Occupational health can increase retention and even boost recruitment. How so? Because keeping staff healthy and happy at work means that they’re less likely to leave. In terms of recruitment, these days and particularly with Gen-Z, there’s been a big shift in priorities and people are looking for wellbeing and support with their careers. It’s all about finding a good workplace that supports employee’s health and wellbeing. Gone are the days of accepting any job without getting much out of it…

The benefits for SME’s investing in Occupational Health services:

Occupational health services are incredibly important, even though many might not think that it’s necessary. For SME’s, managing absences is crucial for ensuring that businesses run smoothly. The more people are off sick, the more operational and financial issues businesses will experience.

With occupational health support, like UKIM OH On-Demand, SMEs are able to have the occupational health support when they need it, so that they can tackle problems and reap the benefits; all without having long-term financial commitments.

Sickness absences for small to medium sized businesses means that there’s more staffing issues, coverage and less output due to the shortages. This is incredibly damaging and can lead to serious business problems. By investing in occupational health and helping workers remain healthy and at work, or helping those who are absent return smoothly, it reduces costs further and keeps operations running at a great standard.

Overall, it really helps increase productivity, reduce presenteeism, increase returns on investment (ROI), increase morale, and even increase recruitment and retention- two huge aspects and current struggles in the UK.