For Employers, HR & OH
Find your way around fertility treatment at work
Treatment often means many clinic visits in working hours, plus tiredness or low mood at points in the cycle. This page is a public marketing summary. The full HR and manager guide sits inside the licensed employer dashboard.
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For employers, HR teams, and OH professionals. General information only, not medical advice for an individual. Everyone's experience is different. For health questions, use Occupational Health or the employee's clinical team, and your organisation's HR processes for policy and workplace support.
Overview
Fertility treatment (for example IVF, IUI, stimulation, egg freezing, or embryo transfer) usually means a lot of hospital visits during the working week. People may also feel physical effects from medication or stress while they wait for results. Around 1 in 6 people experience fertility challenges at some point in their lives, and most of those who go through treatment are employed.
The HR and line-manager role is not to run someone's treatment. It is to understand in broad terms what the journey can involve, make reasonable adjustments where you can, and avoid penalising people for clinic visits or short-term effects that often go with treatment. Most employees do not disclose: published evidence (CIPD, 2023) suggests 47% do not tell their manager or HR.
The licensed employer dashboard hosts the full clinician-authored guide: stage grid, situation-led signposting, workplace implications, manager companion, and the HR referral pathway tool. Content is written by a UK-qualified occupational medicine physician and reviewed against NICE and ACAS guidance.
1 in 6
people experience fertility challenges at some point in their lives (WHO, 2023)
47%
do not disclose to their manager or HR (CIPD, 2023)
87%
of employees who disclosed said their manager had no fertility training (Fertility Matters at Work, 2024)
Inside the employer dashboard
Treatment stages and signposting
Stage-by-stage view of what an employee may be navigating, with situation-led signposting for HR and line managers.
Workplace implications
Population-level patterns: attendance, presenteeism, common adjustments, and where OH referral fits.
Manager companion + referral pathway
Plain-language manager prompts by stage, plus a structured HR decision-support pathway for fertility disclosures.
Full guide inside dashboard
Stage grid, signposting, workplace implications, manager companion, and the HR referral pathway. Licensed employer access. Talk to us about pilot or full licence.