Business & Workplace health
We provide businesses with trustworthy, neutral and constructive advice to inform strategic priorities, corporate social responsibility and business activities.
How we benefit businesses through impartial, evidence-based consulting
At C3 our services focus on five key areas: strategy consulting, convening, research and writing, evaluation and partnership working.
Our highly specialised staff help develop your businesses:
STRATEGY
To better understand current health trends to inform strategic risks and opportunities
To create evidence-based, healthy business activities
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG)
To deliver your priorities in investing in the local community
To support healthier communities where your business operates
(Read about our community engagement project with Nestlé)
Workplace health
To provide appropriate approaches to meet your workforce’s needs
To evaluate the return on investment
(Read about our workplace health project with Serco Health)
We also provide your business with our skills in:
Multi-sector partnerships
Leveraging our global network of 3,000+ professionals to identify solutions to businesses’ complex problems
Event management
Utilising our years of experience convening dynamic events
Research, analysis and reports
Translating research into actionable, plain English
Evaluation
Demonstrating benefits of health initiatives over time
Why businesses care about non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
Sickness absence is expensive for businesses
Diseases caused by unhealthy behaviours (non-communicable diseases) are responsible for significant absenteeism and reduced productivity
Sickness absence costs UK businesses an estimated £29 billion/year
It is estimated that NCDs will cost the world’s economy around $30 trillion over the next 20 years
The World Economic Forum has stressed that the NCD epidemic is one of the most important ‘global risks’ in terms both of likelihood and severity
Improvement in businesses’ financial performance and reputation
Investing in employee health can improve financial performance through improved productivity
Improves businesses’ brand reputation with their workforce, customers and investors
Healthy communities = successful businesses
The health and well-being of communities in which people live and operate is paramount to business success, the bottom line and value creation
Effective corporate social responsibility portfolios
Strategic corporate social responsibility and sustainability portfolios address the health of businesses’ most important populations: customers and employees
Why do we work with business?
At C3, we have seen that by engaging businesses we can reach populations that public-health campaigns do not.
Businesses, particularly those in the food industry, play a vital role in the fight against NCDs as they shape people’s behaviours, buying practices and environments.
The World Health Organization and United Nations acknowledge that private-sector involvement is essential to a whole-of-society effort to tackle NCDs. It is vital to identify where profitability and public health coincide, and to challenge practices that place profits and public health in conflict.
Market forces, used appropriately, can be a powerful means of advancing health and have a legitimate right to be included.
Contact us to discuss how C3 can benefit your business.