When your business is finding traction and scaling rapidly, everything needs to keep pace – your technology, your processes, and your team capacity.
But all too often, employee health initiatives fall behind, becoming unwieldy to manage or impossible to deliver consistently across growing, dispersed teams. This is compounded in a working world where workforces can be split across offices, working from home, and hybrid team members.
The traditional approach to corporate health assessments was designed for a different era – one where employees worked in the same building and could be ushered into an onsite clinic or shuttled to a medical facility during business hours. For today’s busy, hybrid, and geographically distributed teams, this model simply doesn’t work.
The scaling challenge for growing businesses
You know that keeping a team cared for and in good health is vital. But as your business expands, your health assessment programme needs to scale alongside it. But this creates significant challenges:
- Geographic dispersion – When your team is spread across multiple locations, cities or even countries, coordinating health assessments becomes increasingly complex. The logistics of ensuring everyone has fair and equal access to health services can quickly become overwhelming.
- Limited HR bandwidth – Growing businesses often have lean HR teams already stretched thin. Adding the administration of a complex health programme to their workload isn’t feasible, and the expertise required to manage health services may be outside their core skillset.
- Inconsistent experiences – As your team grows, maintaining a consistent, high-quality health experience becomes harder. This can lead to varying levels of engagement across different office locations or between remote and in-office employees.
- The SME gap – According to the PIB Group’s 2024 Mind the Gap survey, smaller businesses are significantly less likely to invest in employee benefits, with 19% of small businesses offering no benefits at all, compared to just 3% of large enterprises. This creates a competitive disadvantage when attracting and retaining talent.
What employees actually want
The disconnect between what employees need and what they receive is striking. The Mind the Gap survey found that 30% of employees would like more support with their physical health, with 28% so concerned about their physical health that it negatively impacts their work performance.
This gap is even more pronounced in smaller businesses, where employee satisfaction with benefits is dramatically lower – just 52% of employees at small businesses are satisfied with their benefits, compared to 72% at large companies.
For growing businesses, these statistics present both a challenge and an opportunity: how can you provide the physical health support employees clearly want without the extensive resources of a large enterprise?
The LiveSmart difference: Built for scalability
With LiveSmart, we’ve designed our health assessment service specifically to address these scaling challenges, with flexibility and simplicity at its core. This adaptability makes it a fantastic choice for challenger startups, growing SMEs and multi-nationals alike.
Nationwide coverage, anywhere delivery
Our network of over 350 mobile Health Practitioners means we can deliver health assessments anywhere in the UK – whether that’s at your office, at multiple locations across the country, or at employees’ homes. As your team expands, our coverage expands with you, ensuring no employee is left behind regardless of where they’re based.
For employees who prefer the utmost convenience or are in remote locations, our DIY finger-prick test kits provide the same comprehensive health insights without requiring any appointments. Everything is designed to be simple and intuitive, with clear instructions for collecting and returning samples.
Minimal administrative burden
We understand that growing businesses have limited HR bandwidth. That’s why we’ve designed LiveSmart to minimise the administrative burden on your team:
- Our Client Success Team handles the entire rollout process, from communication planning to appointment scheduling
- Our booking system allows employees to schedule, reschedule, or cancel appointments at their convenience, without going through HR
- We provide all the communication materials needed to promote the programme internally
- Our easy to understand Company Health Report gives HR teams visibility into participation rates and aggregated health insights
Consistent experience, regardless of company size
The Mind the Gap survey reveals that only 8% of employees at SMEs can pick and choose their benefits, compared to 24% at large enterprises. LiveSmart levels the playing field, offering the same flexible, high-quality health assessments to businesses of all sizes, ensuring your employees receive a premium health benefit regardless of your company’s size.
Predictable, scalable pricing
Our pricing model is designed to grow with you, with transparent, per-employee costs that make it easy to forecast your investment as your team expands. There are no hidden fees for multiple locations or unexpected charges that inflate your costs. Home visits are clearly priced, so you always know what to expect as your team grows. Clear, straight-forward pricing that scales as you do.
Health assessments that grow with your business
As businesses scale, their health needs naturally evolve. LiveSmart’s tiered approach allows you to adapt your health assessment programme as your business matures:
- Start with our Focus assessment to address the core health concerns that can impact productivity
- Expand to our Inspire assessment as you grow, adding nutritional insights to combat fatigue and boost energy
- For key personnel or leadership teams, our Flourish and Perform assessments provide comprehensive health insights that can help prevent costly absences
In today’s competitive talent market, providing health benefits that work for all employees – regardless of location or working arrangement – isn’t just a nice-to-have feature to light up your website’s CSR page; it’s essential for attracting and retaining the best people.
With LiveSmart’s remote, simple, and scalable approach, growing businesses and SMEs can offer a premium health benefit without the administrative headache or logistical complexity often associated with traditional employee health assessment programmes. Because your team’s health should support your growth, not hinder it.
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