Download 'Bright Nights' - our new free employer guide

download ‘BRIGHT NIGHTS’ – OUR NEW FREE EMPLOYER GUIDE

Night workers are the backbone of the UK’s 24/7 economy – but they’re often exhausted, under-supported and left out of the conversation. Our new employer guide, Bright Nights, is here to help change that.

Combining science, new research, frontline feedback and employer insight, our new publication is packed with information and inspiration for employers to better support healthy, engaged and productive night workers.

With the support of our funding partner Impact on Urban Health, we’ve created a free, 28-page resource to help employers understand and get the best from their night workers.

More than a quarter of the UK workforce – 8.7 million people – usually work in the evening or night. Lack of sleep in the UK workforce costs the UK over £50bn per year in productivity, health and care losses. Night workers are more likely to have accidents at work, to have health difficulties linked to their shift pattern and report lower engagement levels than day counterparts. Employers have a duty of care to help address this. However, there is a strong direct commercial case in addition to the moral case. By improving the health and wellbeing of night workers, there is a direct opportunity to boost workplace productivity, engagement and ultimately profit. This is an opportunity for individual employers but also for the UK Government.

Principally, this guide is for employers of people working at night (employers of all sizes and covering all different shift and working hours patterns that include night work). This includes management and key business functions including HR, wellbeing, occupational health, health and safety/SHE, operations and facilities. However, we hope this is also of use for umbrella groups (professional associations, trades unions etc.) and for policy makers (parliamentarians, officials, think tanks and research organisations).