Today's challenges
	Health risk management and absence management

Today’s challenges

Employers face many vital challenges when it comes to managing the cost and risk of employee health and benefit issues, which manifest themselves in a number of key areas, including:

• Productivity and profitability
• Impact on attraction, retention and morale
• Cost of providing insured and self-insured benefits

Mercer works with clients to manage these issues proactively, designing and delivering health and benefits programs that help employers achieve their business goals while improving employee’s engagement and overall health and welfare.

How Mercer can help?

As a leading employee benefit broker and consulting firm, we partner with our clients to design, implement and manage innovative holistic employee benefit programs which deliver specifically tailored health, wellness and absence management initiatives.

We provide:

• Value-added consultative broking: In addition to a broking service, Mercer helps companies with benchmarking, benefits plan design and claims analysis.

• Innovative services: We offer a wide range of innovative solutions including regional benefits management, a unique claims advisory service and integrated solutions across a range of products including group life, group salary continuance, corporate travel, personal accident, group health, expatriate health, wellness programs and absence management.

• One-stop solutions provider: Mercer frees you up to focus on broader strategic issues by providing you with a comprehensive one-stop service spanning design, implementation and administration.

Health risk management and absence management – turning healthier staff into improved business results

As employers emerge from the most challenging set of economic circumstances ever experienced, focus is beginning to return to the quality of benefits offered to employees. However, the lessons we have learnt over the past 18 months remain with us.

More employers are paying attention to the underlying causes that drive costs in their organisation. Staff who operate whilst ill has a direct, negative impact on an organisation’s profitability. Absence causes much business pain at levels that are not quantified.

Leading edge employers are beginning to understand the benefits of proactively managing the health risk profile of their employees, proactively managing absence and how the implementation of an appropriately designed Wellness program can directly lead to improved business results.