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12 insight MARCH/APRIL 2017
Unit DX will promote scientific excellence
with flexible, high-spec lab space and expert support to help develop, accelerate and grow their technology and business. The project was designed to provide infrastructure and support for scientific companies, to allow the sector more space to flourish alongside Bristol’s already thriving tech and digital sectors. Unit DX was founded to retain Bristol’s world-class scientific talent and research, after noticing an outflow of young entrepreneurs to Oxford, Cambridge and London. The idea was formed when Ziylo, a University of Bristol start-up, were looking for fume cupboard and laboratory space in the local area. Upon realising that there was a shortage of such facilities in Bristol, the directors of Ziylo set up a small team to develop Unit DX. The project utilised an existing 15,000 sq ft warehouse space, which has now been subdivided into 17 laboratories and 5,000 sq ft of office space. Construction work is currently underway on the
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central Bristol site, a ten-minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads and the Engine Shed. The facility is also close to the University of Bristol’s planned new £300m campus. Unit DX is working closely with the University to ensure scientific start-ups have a place to go.
nit DX is a scientific incubator opening in March 2017 in the center of Bristol. It will provide early stage science companies
From project outset, Unit DX deemed proximity to
local institutions as a key pre-requisite for the facility, as most other science parks are located out of town. An official partnership between Unit DX and
SETsquared, named as the world’s number one university-led business incubator, is in place, which will allow Unit DX tenants access to their established business support services. Additionally, Unit DX will offer its own support services and incubation programmes with an emphasis on the needs of science companies.
For more information please contact
info@unitdx.com or visit
www.unitdx.com
The cost of ill-health at work
British employers are losing on average 27.5 days of productive time per employee each year as staff take time off sick and underperform in the office as a result of ill-health (otherwise known as presenteeism). This is equivalent to each worker losing more than an entire working month of productive time annually. When translated into monetary terms the combination of this absence and presenteeism costs £73bn a year in lost productivity. Research from Britain’s Healthiest Workplace (BHW)*, surveying more than 34,000 workers across all UK industries, has explored the link between employee ill-health, (primarily driven by lifestyle factors such as smoking or poor nutrition), and short-term productivity loss. The findings identified not only that healthier employees tend to be more engaged and more productive, but when people make improvements to their health over time, this directly leads to significantly improved productivity. The study was developed by VitalityHealth and is delivered in partnership with the University of Cambridge, RAND Europe and Mercer
“There are now a strong group of employers who ‘Healthier
employees tend to be more engaged and more
productive’
recognise that societal trends have changed,” said Chris Bailey, partner at Mercer. “They know that people are living and working with multiple risk factors attributable to modern life, and understand that organisations have great influence in setting shared values and behaviours. Those employers enabling positive health choices and behaviour in the workplace are seeing real benefits as they reduce lost productivity.” Registrations for Britain’s Healthiest Workplace 2017 have now opened. Britain’s Healthiest Workplace is the UK’s most comprehensive workplace wellness study. Its approach is unique
in that it uses employer and employee surveys to draw the link between the workplace and employee wellness engagement, and measures the impact of this
engagement on health and productivity outcomes. Since inception in 2013, 400 organisations and 100,000 employees have taken part in the study.
To find out more about Britain’s Healthiest Workplace and to register for the 2017 survey:
www.vitality.co.uk/business/healthiest- workplace
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