Lifestage health

Mercer Marsh Benefits (MMB) has brought together a range of providers to enable access to the right solutions for your entire workforce demographic. From women’s health to education and support, we provide services regardless of life or career phase, age or gender identity, sexual orientation, relationship status and more.

Our unique health and wellbeing needs change as we move through the key stages of life. From adolescence to adulthood and later years, new life events occur, bringing physical and mental challenges that affect not only ourselves but our families, friends and colleague’s too. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) must be at the heart of lifestage health support, ensuring all employees are supported. 

Lifestage heath support isn't a tick-box exercise that starts and ends with a policy. It's an organisational culture change involving education, awareness, communication and support for employees through important and often challenging periods of their lives. Getting this right in the moments that matter is a vital ingredient to delivering a compelling employee value proposition.

We have put together a suite of providers to ensure we cover the unique needs of all of our clients. This panel of specialists support in different areas throughout the whole journey from education and support through to diagnostics and treatments.

Our solution provides:

• Support for Menopause, Family Planning and Chronic Reproductive Illness.
• Equity within the workplace, offering inclusive education, support and solutions that meet the diverse needs of all employees (regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, relationship status and more).
• The flexibility to choose solutions from our suite of providers that are aligned to their culture and values and that meet the unique requirements their workforce.

As part of our Lifestage Health consulting, we are supporting clients in tackling stigma, presenteeism and absenteeism in the workplace resulting from menopause, fertility/infertility and chronic reproductive illnesses. In doing so clients can further advance workplace DEI, engagement, recruitment and retention. Some stats to frame the challenges include:

• Women of menopausal age are the fastest growing demographic in the UK workforce, yet 20% of women aged 45 - 60 leave jobs due to menopause. (Syrona)
• 100% of women will experience menopause, with 90% feeling symptoms that affect their work performance. (Peppy)
• 80% of women experience reproductive health symptoms at work with 9 days total productivity lost per year due to presenteeism. (Hertility)
• 63% of an organisation’s benefit policies are not inclusive of LGBTQ+ employees and their partners. (Syrona)