Innovations

Thanks Will. Could you please elaborate on : linking with an occupational health organisation to offer a back pain and lower limb programme. Which occupational health organisation have you'll linked for back pain. We do have these complaints often

We do have Yoga sessions offered to our employees once a month.

Very location-dependent, but I used to work for an osteopathic college with a large clinic in central London. We set up partnerships with local businesses, where their staff could attend at discounted rates (and given they were low anyway because the treatments were student-led, this meant that patients were paying about £20 or less for an appointment). No idea where you're based, but something similar could be seen as very supportive.

Thanks Nina. Appreciate your feedback

We have an on-site occupational health department and met with them to discuss our absence data/trends. It was from this discussion that we worked with them to implement these programmes to proactively reduce absenteeism linked to these types of issues. You could try a local OH company or a local gym, etc.

Thanks Will. Appreciated!

It sounds like the most constructive innovation you could implement, as Keith implied, is a review of how your company goes about setting objectives. Forgive me if I'm reading too much into it, but your question sounds a little bit like "Quick! Be innovative!"

But HR, these days, is a data-driven, evidence-based discipline and we shouldn't be doing things purely for the sake of wanting to be doing what all the cool companies are doing.

You should have a breakdown of HR's expenditure in the last FY. Look at whatever's largest and work out what you could have done to make it smaller. It could be as simply as re-negotiating a contract or changing a contracted provider.