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Melin Homes - Impact on Staff Health and Wellbeing

Staff surveys have highlighted how the Zest initiative has enabled many staff to improve their health and wellbeing and make a number of positive changes including:

  • Becoming more active
  • Stopping smoking
  • Making healthier food choices
  • Becoming less stressed
  • Learning new skills

As a result of these changes, Melin Homes experienced:

  • Improvements in levels of staff engagement
  • Increased staff satisfaction levels across the company
  • Despite the pandemic, sickness absence rates remained below 5% during 2021 and were down to 2.2% in May 2022
  • Officially recognised as one of the UK’s best companies to work for, featuring on three Sunday Times ‘Best Companies to Work For’ lists in 2021:
  • Number 87 in The UK’s ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’
  • Number 6 in Housing’s ‘25 Best Associations to Work For’ in the UK, and Number 1 in Wales!
  • Number 20 in ‘Wales’ 30 Best Companies to Work For’

“We recently asked staff if they felt Melin Homes cared about their health and wellbeing and 99% of staff said yes!”

“91% of staff agreed they could make a valuable contribution to the success of the organisation.”

“Despite working from home and living through a pandemic, 89% of staff are happy with the balance between work and home life.”

Page last reviewed: 19th March 2025