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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.


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    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Don’t cull health and wellbeing benefits when needed most, employers warned

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2020

    Employers are being urged to resist the temptation to suspend or cull employee health benefits as part of a cost-cutting...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    How can essential employers cope with increased demand on HR?

    by Ed Hussey 3 Apr 2020
    by Ed Hussey 3 Apr 2020

    With so much focus on furlough and emergency support for struggling employers during the coronavirus crisis, what about those organisations...

    • Stress
    • Research
    • Coronavirus

    Coronavirus: workers worried about future and ‘overwhelmed’ by the news

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Apr 2020

    Almost half (47%) of UK adults say their mental health has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak – especially those...

    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health conditions
    • Latest News

    Managers must improve mental health support during coronavirus crisis

    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 31 Mar 2020

    Better communication needed if employee mental health is to be safeguarded during Covid-19 crisis.

    • Stress
    • Benefits
    • Financial wellbeing

    Mental health: why employees don’t ask for help (webinar)

    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 30 Mar 2020
    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 30 Mar 2020

    ON -DEMAND | | As coronavirus has an unprecedented impact on people's lives, employees' mental health is in the spotlight. But admitting...

    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health conditions
    • Mental health

    Coronavirus – millions feeling panicked, afraid and unprepared

    by Nic Paton 27 Mar 2020
    by Nic Paton 27 Mar 2020

    Millions of UK adults say they feel panicked, afraid and unprepared because of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, according to new...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Mental health conditions

    Nine out of 10 working in TV, film and cinema experience mental ill health

    by Nic Paton 27 Mar 2020
    by Nic Paton 27 Mar 2020

    Almost nine in 10 people working in the UK’s film, TV and cinema industries say they have experienced a mental...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Clinical governance

    Coronavirus: how should occupational health support its mental health effects?

    by Professor Neil Greenberg 19 Mar 2020
    by Professor Neil Greenberg 19 Mar 2020

    As organisations and the government step up measures to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, Professor Neil Greenberg, in...

    • Coronavirus
    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions

    Six in 10 staff feeling anxious, stressed or distracted, fuelled by coronavirus worries

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Mar 2020

    Six in 10 employees currently feel anxious, distracted or stressed, mainly because of fears around how the coronavirus pandemic will...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Fit for Work

    Ill health costs firms 38 days per employee in lost productivity

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Feb 2020

    Employers lost on average 38 working days per worker to physical and mental health-related absence and presenteeism in 2019, costing...

    • Latest News
    • Paternity
    • Mental health

    Fathers ‘more likely to seek mental health support than mothers’

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Feb 2020

    Fathers are four times more likely to seek mental health support than mothers, according to an online support service for...

    • Stress
    • Fit notes
    • Mental health conditions

    Rise in stress-related fit notes prompts call to investigate causes

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Feb 2020

    Employers have been urged to do more to uncover the root causes of absence, after it was revealed the number...

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Reasonable adjustments

    NHS staff survey reveals little progress in boosting health and wellbeing

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Feb 2020

    Only three out of 10 (29.3%) NHS staff say their trust takes positive action on health and wellbeing, with many...

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    How stopping rudeness in its tracks can make work a safer place

    by Dr Chris Turner 18 Feb 2020
    by Dr Chris Turner 18 Feb 2020

    Uncivil and rude behaviour seems to be increasing in the workplace, making it difficult to confront difficult situations. But a...

    • Fit for Work
    • Stress
    • Fit for Work

    Presenteeism blights seven in 10 organisations, poll finds

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Feb 2020

    Seven in 10 (71%) business leaders have witnessed “presenteeism” in their organisations over the past 12 months, with the behaviour...

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