Time To Talk Day takes place in many workplaces across the UK at this time of the year. It’s billed as the nation’s biggest conversation about mental health. However, if all you do is pay lip service as it hits the calendar and talk for one day, there’s little value. So how do you turn…
As employers attempt to be more inclusive, they have tended to focus on gender and ethnicity as areas to improve on but there’s another important factor that is being overlooked. And that is age. When we can start work at the age of 16 and still be working into our 70s, how do you ensure…
Historically company leaders have had to be the strongest person on the team, leading the way no matter how difficult the economic situation is, showing no vulnerability. This toxic approach dominated the corporate agenda, seeping down through the management layers to the rest of the workforce. But change is happening. In recent years senior leaders…
More than 6,000 people in the UK take their life every year. Three-quarters of those suicides are men. Suicide is the biggest killer of young adults under the age of 35 and of men aged between 50 and 54. And while there is a link between unemployment and suicide, the reality is that most people…
No matter where you look on social media these days, people are sharing their lived experience of poor mental health and other life challenges. However, when it comes to the workplace, there is still a reluctance to be as open about what we might be going through with our work colleagues and our employer for…
Do you take the wellbeing of your employees seriously or is it just a tick box exercise so you can include it in your annual report and say “job done”? If it’s the latter, then it might be time for a re-think because new research suggests that companies that are actively investing in employee wellbeing…
The great resignation is a symptom of a much bigger problem. The great realisation gets us focused on the cause of “why” people are leaving companies, or even the workforce entirely. In the next 12 months it is estimated that 6.5 million UK workers plan to quit their jobs, with one in four workers citing…
Amid the ceaseless barrage of media noise over the cost-of-living crisis, rocketing fuel prices and the conflict in Ukraine, it’s easy to forget that, at the centre of it all, is the health and wellbeing of millions of people. We may feel blessed that we’re not fighting daily for our lives in the middle of…
Money worries don’t just impact our wallets, they are closely linked to our mental and physical health. At a time of rising concern about the cost of living therefore, it’s important to look after each other, watch out for those who might be struggling, and share positive steps we can all take to try to…
Does the thought of the summer holidays fill you with excitement or leave you feeling stressed out? Whichever camp you are in, research tells us that holidays can be good for our wellbeing. Our resident GP DR Laura Coia takes a look at why holidays are good for us and how we can make…