Employee health perks

A health perk UK teams can actually use.

MeScreen gives employers a premium, optional wellbeing benefit built around at-home mitochondrial function testing, practical mitochondrial function reporting and clearer conversations about energy, recovery and long-term health.

MeScreen at-home sample kit used for a UK employee health perk
At-home sampling keeps the benefit simple for busy staff while the report gives more substance than a generic reward.
What this page is for

Offer a benefit that feels premium without pretending to be occupational health.

An employee health perk should be easy to understand, voluntary and useful after the campaign email has been forgotten. MeScreen is designed for UK teams that want a more credible benefit than merchandise, step challenges or low-use wellness subscriptions.

The MeScreen mitochondrial function test costs £599 and can be offered as a funded, subsidised or leadership-level benefit. Staff complete the sample pathway at home, then receive a report that explains cellular-energy and biomarker themes in plain language. The right positioning is preventative and educational: it helps people ask better questions about recovery, metabolic health and resilience, while keeping diagnosis and treatment decisions with qualified clinicians.

£599per MeScreen mitochondrial function test
11functional biomarkers explained in report context
7.8average UK sickness absence days per employee reported by CIPD in 2023
Example MeScreen report overview showing biomarker context for an employee health benefit
Why it works as a perk

A better fit for teams that value prevention, privacy and follow-through.

MeScreen works best when employers frame it as an optional personal insight benefit, not a staff surveillance tool or a substitute for GP care.

More useful than generic rewards

Staff receive a structured report they can keep, revisit and discuss with an appropriate professional if they want clinical interpretation.

  • Relevant to energy, recovery and healthspan conversations
  • Clearer perceived value than one-off incentives
  • Simple at-home workflow for distributed teams

Privacy-first by design

Individual results should remain private to the employee. Employers can support access and education without viewing personal reports.

  • Voluntary participation language
  • Clear limits around employer visibility
  • No diagnosis or fitness-for-work decision-making

Evidence-aware positioning

UK wellbeing spend is easier to defend when the benefit has a defined experience, a concrete report and cautious medical boundaries.

  • Useful for executive health and benefits pilots
  • Aligned with prevention-led wellbeing strategy
  • Supports follow-up without overclaiming outcomes
Commercial fit

Use MeScreen when the team benefit needs to feel meaningful.

The strongest employee-benefit use is selective and well explained: leadership groups, retention packages, wellbeing weeks, high-performance teams or staff cohorts who want more than a general lifestyle nudge.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the UK sickness absence rate was 2.6% in 2022, with minor illness, musculoskeletal issues and mental health among leading reasons for lost work time. MeScreen does not solve those categories, but it gives staff a more structured way to explore health signals that may influence energy and recovery conversations.

Funded benefit Executive health option Wellbeing week follow-up Retention reward

MeScreen is a wellness assessment, not a clinical triage service.

Employers should avoid using the test to assess fitness for work, decide adjustments, rank staff health or replace occupational-health advice. Employees with symptoms or concerns should use NHS or private medical care.

Good positioning
Optional personal health insight with clear boundaries.
Poor positioning
A way for employers to monitor staff health or diagnose burnout.
Best next step
Explain privacy, consent, pricing and the follow-up route before launch.
Evidence and authority

Built for cautious UK wellbeing communication.

A credible health perk should be specific enough to be useful and careful enough not to overstep. MeScreen’s role is to support education and report-led insight, not to diagnose staff or promise productivity gains.

Quotable summary: MeScreen is best understood as an optional employee health insight benefit, not an occupational-health assessment. It can help staff understand cellular-energy themes while keeping medical decisions with clinicians.

Sources referenced for workplace context: CIPD Health and wellbeing at work and ONS sickness absence in the labour market, 2022.

FAQ

Employee health perk FAQs

What makes MeScreen different from a normal employee perk?

MeScreen gives staff an optional at-home mitochondrial function test and report-led biomarker context, rather than a discount, challenge or general wellbeing subscription.

Can employers see an employee's individual results?

No. Individual results should remain private to the employee. Any employer discussion should be limited to programme logistics or, where agreed, aggregated non-identifying themes.

Does MeScreen diagnose fatigue, burnout or medical conditions?

No. MeScreen is a wellness and functional laboratory assessment. It does not diagnose burnout, fatigue syndromes, metabolic disease or any medical condition, and it does not replace NHS or private medical care.

Who is the health perk best suited to?

It is best suited to UK teams, leadership groups and benefits programmes where staff value prevention, recovery, healthspan and practical data over generic wellness rewards.

What should staff do with concerning symptoms or results?

Staff with symptoms, urgent concerns or abnormal findings should speak with their GP, NHS 111, urgent care or emergency services as appropriate. MeScreen can support context but not emergency care or diagnosis.

Next step

Plan a MeScreen team health perk with clear boundaries.

Use MeScreen for staff who want a premium, evidence-aware health benefit and a practical report they can take forward responsibly.