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Mental health

Work can have a significant impact on people’s mental health. Employers can help to foster a mentally healthy workplace, for example by taking action to prevent and manage stress and training line managers on mental wellbeing.


    • Coronavirus
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Mental health

    KFC: How a focus on belonging built a tasty employer brand

    by Jo Faragher 5 Oct 2021
    by Jo Faragher 5 Oct 2021

    KFC listened to its employees during lockdown and responded with a menu of family-friendly policies and renewed flexibility.  

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Lawyers at high risk of burnout as ‘work intensity’ threatens mental health

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Oct 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Oct 2021

    Low mood and depression is afflicting 69% of legal employees, finds a survey by LawCare.

    • Long Covid
    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus

    One in three have long Covid symptoms after coronavirus infection

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Sep 2021

    More than a third of people who have had Covid-19 have subsequently been diagnosed with at least one symptom of...

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Mental health

    Nine in 10 GPs report rise in work-related mental health concerns

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Sep 2021

    Nine in 10 GPs have reported an increase in patients suffering work-related stress and anxiety since the pandemic began, prompting...

    • Benefits
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Dr Alex George to give keynote at Employee Benefits Live

    by Zoe Wickens 24 Sep 2021
    by Zoe Wickens 24 Sep 2021

    In just two weeks’ time, Dr Alex George, TV doctor and government youth mental health ambassador, will be delivering the...

    • Blood pressure
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Staff hesitant to disclose poor mental health, high blood pressure and arthritis

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Sep 2021

    A survey has found two in five wouldn't tell their employer about a health condition.

    • Stress
    • Mental health
    • Sickness absence

    Guidance encourages mental health training for managers

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Sep 2021

    Employers should give managers mental health training to enable them to facilitate conversations, health bodies have said.

    • Anxiety
    • Coronavirus
    • Depression

    First lockdowns fuelled insomnia, anxiety and depression

    by Nic Paton 15 Sep 2021
    by Nic Paton 15 Sep 2021

    Insomnia, anxiety, and depression were 'very prevalent' during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, an international study has suggested.

    • Hybrid working
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health

    Hybrid working: managing loneliness and isolation

    by Malcolm Tullett 15 Sep 2021
    by Malcolm Tullett 15 Sep 2021

    The mantra for our ‘new normal’ will need to be ‘out of sight, front of mind’, argues Malcolm Tullett.

    • Mental health
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Third of firms say mental health support has improved

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Sep 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Sep 2021

    Three in 10 employers say their mental health and wellbeing support has improved since the pandemic began, while one in...

    • Police
    • Health and safety
    • Mental health

    Police Scotland HR official accused of misleading tribunal

    by Jo Faragher 1 Sep 2021
    by Jo Faragher 1 Sep 2021

    A firearms officer with Police Scotland has accused HR officials at the force of misleading an employment tribunal and delaying...

    • Mental health

    One in eight suffering ‘unmanageable’ stress

    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Aug 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 31 Aug 2021

    People working from home may be suffering ‘unmanageable stress’ because they have been putting in longer hours since the start of the pandemic.

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Study: Wellbeing apps and classes ‘don’t benefit mental health’

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Aug 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Aug 2021

    A University of Cambridge study finds that wellbeing interventions have little positive effect.

    • Fit for Work
    • Mental health
    • Disability

    Gen X worry physical health will limit ability to work

    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Aug 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 25 Aug 2021

    Six in 10 Generation X workers are concerned that poor physical health could prevent them from working in later life....

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    CPD: understanding service-area and organisational stress audits

    by Simon Naish 20 Aug 2021
    by Simon Naish 20 Aug 2021

    Organisational or service-level stress audits can help to identify and address causes of work-related stress and, from there, support appropriate...

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