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Can Eargym help your business? Eargym’s goal is to make hearing care simple and accessible, so people can take the right steps to check, protect and improve their hearing health, no matter what their hearing ability is. We’re a lifestyle and well-being product currently in the process of becoming accredited by The Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps and B-Corp certified. Our app provides convenient tools for people to check and monitor their hearing health, as well as providing signposting for people to get appropriate professional help, if needed. Eargym has a suite of services for businesses which provide the education you need to raise awareness about better hearing health for your workforce. It empowers individuals with personalised care plans to protect and improve their hearing and provides organisations with a variety of support services to address any issues among their team. Designed by professionals and informed by research, Eargym is the first company to pioneer hearing training, fun games designed to improve hearing skills and reduce the cognitive effort to hear well. Eargym’s training challenges core listening and cognitive skills, including speech intelligibility, auditory processing, selective attention and working memory. Most people don’t know how their hearing actually is. Eargym’s hearing age test 5 is a handy tool for anyone who wants to get an indication of their hearing level in less than 60 seconds. Find out more about how Eargym could benefit your business, here: https://ow.ly/ rxy050PyyB1. You can try our app for free on iOS 6 and Android 7 .
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It’s an opportunity to boost employee well-being, increase productivity and save money Hearing loss is a major mental health challenge in the workplace. When employees suffer hearing loss , it has lots of knock-on effects which include difficulty engaging in meetings, reduced ability to focus and their hearing loss becoming an acute source of work-related stress. It can improve short and long-term well-being Hearing loss affects much more than just our hearing. By providing support, you can help employees look after their short and long-term well-being and reduce the impact of hearing loss on their quality of life. Ways you can address hearing in the workplace The first step to tackling stigma is having open conversations about the issue. Encouraging your teams to talk about their experiences with hearing health is a great way to discover what the needs of your team are.
as a business. Currently, hearing loss costs the UK economy £25 billion in lost productivity, sick days and early retirement
working, virtual meetings and increased headphone use, employers arguably now have a greater duty of care to provide their employees with hearing healthcare. There’s a strong case that hearing health should be part of a modern, progressive well-being benefits package. HR leaders like Ian Hodson MSc ChFCIPPdip, director of people and culture at Housing 21 agree. He commented, “Unaddressed hearing loss is the next corporate social responsibility challenge for businesses, as it becomes a sense that now underpins being able to support working in more flexible ways, and if neglected can impact engagement and productivity. Hearing has often been overlooked in the controlled environment of office spaces, but I truly believe it is an aspect of well-being that better organisations will allocate more time to, in terms of both educating colleagues on hearing and encouraging support where required.” n
/ recruitment costs every year. Hearing loss can make staying
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productive and engaged in the workforce really challenging. Typically, people with hearing loss will retire seven to nine years earlier than their co-workers as the effects of unaddressed hearing loss take a toll on their ability to do their job, with huge financial repercussions for both the individual and the business. Those who may end up retiring early are likely to be your team’s most senior members who are in the later stages of their career. The associated costs of recruiting to replace their team members is huge, along with individual financial remuneration and lost pension at this crucial stage. Why hearing health is the missing piece in your well-being strategy While employers are becoming increasingly aware of how beneficial healthcare packages are to employee productivity and satisfaction, many businesses still don’t provide hearing health as part of their well- being strategy. In the UK, seven million people of working age have some degree of hearing loss which is impacting them in the workplace. And with the rise of remote
Providing your employees with access to regular checks, support and expert advice promotes an inclusive workplace and ensures those who need additional care and treatment are signposted in the right direction. Create a sound working environment Understand what technology and equipment can help your employees hear their best with headphone safeguarding, assistive technology and custom acoustic panelling to improve office acoustics. Communication tactics Enhance your employee support with training from hearing coaches, who provide tips for improving your acoustic environment and techniques to implement behaviour changes that can help you hear better. The personal and professional cost of hearing loss Not only does hearing health impact the quality of life of your workers, but it impacts wider profits and productivity
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Issue 93 | September 2023
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