For employers
Support Staff Through Fertility Treatment
Your policy sets the rules. OccuFertility helps with the day-to-day.
- Managers get the words and adjustments for each stage
- Helps keep people in work through treatment
- Anonymous group results for your business case, never one person's data
3 steps
How It Works
No clinician on your payroll needed.
Step 1 of 3
Employees Sign Up Privately
With an email, a password and a code. Nobody at your organisation sees who.
Step 2 of 3
Their Check-in Becomes Documents
A GP summary, a line manager brief and an OH referral. They decide who sees each one.
Step 3 of 3
You See Patterns, Never People
Group figures once 250 employees choose to share, anonymously.
The Full Rollout, Step by Step
Licence and Access Codes
Your organisation is set up with a licence and a batch of access codes.
HR shares them using the ready-written all-staff announcement, manager briefing and four-week reminder in the employer dashboard.
Employees Sign Up Privately
Each employee creates their own account with an email address, a password and a code. Nobody at your organisation can see who has signed up.
Check-Ins Become Documents the Employee Controls
A short clinician-built check-in (a four-question wellbeing score, a work ability score and work impact) turns into a GP summary, a line manager brief and an occupational health referral.
The employee decides whether to share each one, and with whom.
You See Patterns, Never People
Once 250 employees have chosen to share their anonymous data, your dashboard shows anonymised group figures: uptake against your eligible workforce, quarterly work ability and work impact bands, self-advocacy counts and an ESG summary.
Every figure needs at least 50 people, and people counts are rounded. An aggregate PDF can be exported for board, ESG or wellbeing reporting.
OccuFertility covers fertility and IVF at work. It is part of OccuHer™. OccuMeno (menopause) is being built. OccuGynae (hormonal health and gynae conditions, including PCOS, endometriosis and PMDD) is planned to follow.
6 things
What Your Team Gets
- Anonymised ReportingGroup figures only. No individual data.
- Zero Individual Data AccessYou never see individual responses.
- Demonstrate Duty of CareAn evidence-based resource for your people.
- OH Referral TemplatesReferral notes with phase-specific context.
- Clinical Impact GuideTreatment stages and what they mean at work.
What the Reporting Shows
Group figures only: uptake, quarterly work ability and work impact bands, self-advocacy counts and a one-page ESG summary.
Shown once 250 people have chosen to share their anonymous data; every figure needs at least 50 people, and people counts are rounded to the nearest 10.
No mood scores, risk groups or treatment data. Enforced on the server.
4 numbers
Why It Matters
Treatment lands in working hours. Unsupported, it shows up as absence and attrition.
1 in 6
people are affected by infertility at some point in their lives
£217m
annual cost to UK employers from treatment-related absence and attrition (Fertility Matters at Work)
2 in 5
employees with fertility challenges said they had left or considered leaving their job during treatment (39%)
29%
of people who had fertility treatment used sick leave for it
Sources
- 1 in 6: World Health Organization, 2023.
- £217m: Fertility Matters at Work with Ferring Pharmaceuticals and This Can Happen, cost analysis by Make An Impact CIC (The £217 Million Question), 2025.
- 2 in 5 (39%): Ferring, Fertility Matters at Work and This Can Happen, 2025; 3,600+ people in five countries including the UK.
- 29%: Totaljobs with the Fawcett Society, Paths to Parenthood, 2023 (n=2,000).
6 roles
Where It Fits
Alongside the support people already have.
The 6 Roles, One by One
- The EmployeeA private toolkit and documents from their own check-in.
- Line Managers and HRA brief the employee chooses to share. No health data.
- Occupational HealthA referral note in the employee's own words.
- The GPA one-page summary for a ten-minute appointment.
- The Fertility ClinicClinical care is untouched. We are the workplace layer.
- Your EAP or Wellbeing ProviderComplementary, not competing.
Licensed Employer Feature
HR Referral Pathway
A short, structured decision-support pathway for HR and line managers.
For when an employee discloses fertility treatment.
What the Pathway Covers
Three questions, then a clear pathway card that covers:
- What this kind of situation typically involves
- Where HR teams usually direct the conversation next
- Questions an OH referral should be designed to answer
- Practical fallbacks where no OH service exists
Available to employers with an active OccuFertility licence.
Line managers reach it from the employer dashboard once the organisation is enrolled.
Related Public Resources
- OH Practitioner Checklist
For the OH provider receiving the referral.
- OH Management Report Template
Structure for the report HR receives back.
- Equality Act & Fertility
Context only. Legal questions sit with your employment lawyer.
- What Is a Fertility Benefit?
- Fertility Policy Template
Read Next
Related Resources
Cost of Inaction Calculator
Equality Act & Fertility
Partner Support at Work
Common Questions
Do UK employers have a legal duty to support employees through fertility treatment?
There is no single statutory duty specifically covering fertility treatment, but several legal frameworks are relevant.
The Equality Act 2010 may require reasonable adjustments where an employee's underlying fertility condition meets the disability threshold.
Health and safety obligations apply where treatment has physical effects. Best-practice employers go further with a written fertility policy.
OccuFertility helps HR and OH teams put the right structures in place.
What should a UK workplace fertility policy include?
A good fertility policy covers adjustments for appointments and side effects, absence rules during treatment cycles, an optional sharing process, a route to occupational health, and confidentiality.
How can employers support employees through IVF without accessing private health data?
OccuFertility is built around this principle. Employees use the platform privately.
Employers only ever see anonymised, group-level aggregate patterns, not individual check-in data or treatment details.
A dataset anonymity gate (minimum 250 employees contributing) prevents re-identification.
Employers get population-level insights and structured support tools without any access to personal health information.
What does an employer actually see in the OccuFertility dashboard?
Anonymised group figures only, and only once 250 employees have chosen to share their anonymous data: uptake against your eligible workforce, the share of people in each work ability and work impact band each quarter, counts of self-advocacy documents prepared, and a one-page ESG summary.
Every figure needs at least 50 people, people counts are rounded to the nearest 10, and the limits are enforced on the server, not in the browser.
Employers never see who signed up, individual answers, mood scores (PHQ-4), risk groups or treatment details. An aggregate PDF can be exported for reporting.
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