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.
As the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine receives approval from the UK medicines regulator, to what degree can employers insist that staff...
The Co-op has launched a nightshift workers’ health and wellbeing ‘manifesto’ in Parliament, which has called for employers to be...
Long Covid can affect many areas of an employee’s life – and the health and wellbeing benefits and interventions offered...
Employees have been encouraged to adopt a ‘fake commute’ while working from home, with research finding almost three in five...
Only 3% of people aged 55 and over would see their GP if they experienced memory loss, forgetfulness or a...
Worries about Covid-19 are affecting wellbeing as employees work from home, but loneliness and having to juggle domestic responsibilities with...
An education union has warned of a post-Covid exodus of head teachers, with almost half who responded to a survey...
The CIPD has vowed to address its own diversity issues as it supports the HR community to build more inclusive...
This month’s second national lockdown in England could fuel a wave of alcohol-related health problems, a charity has warned.
Almost one in five people who test positive for Covid-19 are diagnosed with a psychiatric condition within the following three...
Millions of people in the UK feel that poor sleep is negatively affecting their mental health every night.
A report...
The House of Lords’ Covid-19 committee has launched an inquiry into how the increased digitalisation of our work and personal...
An Oxford University study looking at the longer-term impact of Covid-19, so-called “long Covid”, has concluded that a large proportion...
A total of 38.8 million working days were lost because of work-related illness and workplace injury in 2019/20, with more...
Personal levels of resilience may help to determine how well, or not, an individual copes with the mental and emotional...
