The investment case for healthier workplaces.
Reported research and playbooks for people leaders who want to build the business case for workplace nutrition — grounded in named UK and global studies.
£138bn a year: why nutrition belongs on your wellbeing P&L
Vitality's Britain's Healthiest Workplace research puts the cost of poor employee health at nearly 50 lost days per person a year. Nutrition is one of the few levers employers can actually pull.
The wellbeing benefit worth investing in is the one people actually use
REBA's 2024 Employee Wellbeing Research shows how quickly responsibility for health is shifting onto employers. The programmes that pay back are the ones designed for daily use — not the ones with the biggest launch.
How to buy workplace nutrition (and prove the investment to finance)
The WHO and Business in the Community have argued for years that food environments deserve the same rigour as physical safety. Most employers still buy nutrition piecemeal. Here's how to change that — and how to prove the case to your CFO.
The 3pm slump is a meal problem — and it's costing you output
Peer-reviewed evidence keeps arriving at the same conclusion: specific micronutrients and specific meal patterns keep cognitive performance stable through the working day. It's one of the cheapest productivity upgrades an employer can make.
What Britain's healthiest workplaces do differently — and why it pays back
A decade of Britain's Healthiest Workplace data, plus published Vitality case studies from the likes of Johnson & Johnson, Adidas UK and Novo Nordisk, points to a repeatable playbook for employers who want measurable returns from wellbeing spend.
Inclusive food culture: the wellbeing investment that reaches everyone
The British Dietetic Association's One Blue Dot project set the direction: healthier, more sustainable eating at work should be plant-forward, culturally literate and accessible to every employee regardless of budget, faith or medical need.
Beyond fruit bowls: where the return on wellbeing investment actually lives
McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum have put the global prize for holistic employee health investment at close to $12 trillion. Very little of that value is unlocked by a bowl of apples.