Flu vaccinations for Corporate Clients

Flu vaccinations are the only employee service where the evidence for direct cost savings to your company is clear and certain.

Flu could close your company down in an epidemic, and not many insurance policies will cover the costs incurred by this. Flu vaccination - the 'flu jab' - will protect you.

Offering vaccinations to your staff is perceived as a benefit, is good for staff morale, and shows you are a generous and responsible employer. At the same time is it is more than self-funding and is therefore not treated as a benefit in kind in your accounts.

FLU VACCINATION IS THEREFORE A WIN WIN SERVICE.

Are Flu Vaccines Cost-Effective?

Flu vaccinations are the only employee service where the evidence for direct cost savings to your company is clear and certain. In an epidemic flu could close your company down and not many insurance policies will cover the costs incurred by this. Flu vaccination of the workforce will protect you.

Offering vaccinations to your staff is perceived as a benefit, is good for morale and shows you are a generous and caring employer. At the same time it is more than self-funding and is therefore not treated as a benefit in kind in your accounts.

The Home Office survey on a London based company’s flu vaccination program in 2001 correlating vaccine uptake with staff absence via NI number confirmed an overall cost benefit.

A recent Chartered Institute of Personnel Director’s survey showed a cost of sick leave of £522 per annum and it is thought that up to 10% of this was due to absence caused by flu.

The US Department of Health recommended in January 2003 that "All who wish to decrease their risk of getting flu should begin receiving vaccinations".