Help your workplace stay protected this winter with flu vaccines

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With the colder months ahead, now’s the ideal time to think about what you can do to support the health and wellbeing of your workforce.

Everywhen’s Employee Benefits team has recently launched our 2026 Flu Vaccination Proposition, offering you a simple and effective way to protect your people during the upcoming flu season.

Why it matters

Seasonal flu can have a significant impact on your business, affecting employee wellbeing while also creating operational challenges through increased absence, reduced productivity and increased pressure on teams.

It’s estimated that 4.8 million UK working days are lost specifically to flu each year, making it a major driver of workplace absenteeism¹
Flu has an estimated economic impact of £644m in the UK²
A large proportion of the core workforce (18–64 healthy adults) are not routinely eligible, meaning they remain unprotected and workplaces carry avoidable risk
More than half of UK working adults report working for at least some of the time they have influenza, or care for a dependent with influenza. During this time, on average they’re 35 - 46% less productive at work³
The impact can be critical to SME success where the workforce is fewer than 49 employees. SMEs make up 99.85% of all UK businesses⁴
While flu vaccine effectiveness varies each season, it can reduce the risk of serious flu-related illness by 30% to 70%, and in 2024/25 was estimated to have prevented up to 120,000 hospital admissions in England⁵

A proactive solution

Workplace flu vaccination programmes offer a proactive, preventative solution. By helping protect your employees against seasonal flu, you can support wellbeing, reduce the spread of infection in the workplace, and strengthen your business resilience during the winter months.

Let's talk

Think you could benefit from our workplace flu vaccination programme? Speak to your Employee Benefits consultant or contact Angela Beet on angela.beet@everywhen.co.uk.

Reduce the impact of seasonal flu, support your employee wellbeing and keep your business performing at its best throughout the winter months.

Diane Caplehorn

Head of Partnerships – Direct

About Diane

Diane is a respected industry leader with over 25 years' experience within the insurance sector. She works across a wide spectrum of insurance products and policy development, delivery and optimisation for health and beauty, professional risks and martial arts clients, including managing partner relationships helping clients in protecting their businesses. Her areas of expertise within the sector include Micro-SME, Medical Charities.

Diane currently works at Everywhen as Head of Product – Direct. Everywhen combines regional care with national reach, deep sector knowledge and strong insurer relationships to deliver tailored solutions across 55+ schemes. We help our clients navigate everyday and emerging risks with confidence, always and at all times.

She previously worked for 14 years at Gallagher’s as Executive Director.

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