All Mental health resilience articles – Page 35

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    Time to revisit and recharge your mental health armoury

    8 April 2021

    By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development and Marketing at Generali UK Employee BenefitsEmployees in the UK are at a particularly low ebb right now. In fact, the working population is currently as distressed as the ‘most distressed’ one per cent of working Britons, prior to 2020, according to Morneau ...

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    New report reveals how a year of Covid-19 has seen employees embrace stress management

    7 April 2021

    More than a third of people opted for mental health support when they checked in to the Gympass platform There was a switch from anxiety support to stress management over the year With the spotlight on health, Gympass saw increases in physical activity for ...

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    Tina Chander: When furlough ends, safety and mental health issues could start

    7 April 2021

    As furlough ends and employees begin to return to factories and offices, employers need to consider what physical measures are needed to ensure they remain Covid-secure and that it is safe for their people to return to work.The Health and Safety at Work Act has long-provided for safe working environments, ...

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    Stress risk assessments: The why, what, when & how

    6 April 2021

    By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits and Lorna Berry, Operations & Clinical Services Manager at Form HealthEver heard of a stress risk assessment? If not, you’re not alone. Nearly half (47%) of HR attendees at our recent webinar said they’d never used ...

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    Abi Frederick and Paul Norris: Employers have a duty to support home workers

    6 April 2021

    Employers have a duty to take steps that are reasonably necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of homeworkers. The risks include feelings of isolation, a lack of supervision, issues arising from prolonged use of display screen equipment, working long hours and taking inadequate breaks. Employers need to ...

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    The nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 3)

    1 April 2021

    Caroline Outterside, a psychological therapist, notes some of the reasons for these concerns and the ramifications: “The change curve theory suggests we experience a gradual transition process of adjusting to the loss we feel, through a range of emotions that include denial, frustration, confusion, even depression until we get to ...

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    Work-life balance: five pieces of the workplace wellbeing jigsaw

    31 March 2021

    We continue to explore the critical issue of work-life balance – an issue which COVID has brought into sharp focus - with a blog post that suggests some strategies, tips and ideas to help both managers and employees to stay on the right track. In a previous ...

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    Women reveal lack of menopause support at work

    31 March 2021

    Research published today (31 March) has highlighted the lack of menopause support women receive as they struggle to stay in work while experiencing symptoms.According to the Driving the change: menopause and the workplace report, not only is help sporadic but also poor in quality, with 76% of respondents calling for ...

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    Amey rolls out new mental wellbeing support

    31 March 2021

    Infrastructure services provider Amey has teamed up with mental health charity Mates in Mind to help widen the conversation among staff about managing their mental wellbeing and resilience.The partnership will see the organisation roll out the charity’s bespoke mental health and wellbeing programmes to staff, starting with online mental health ...

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    Group protection usage hit by data privacy fears

    31 March 2021

    New research has suggested that slower-than-anticipated uptake of some group protection benefits may be due to data privacy fears.According to a study by Legal and General, 19% of staff questioned who had access to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) revealed that privacy concerns were a barrier to usage – a figure ...

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    The nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 2)

    31 March 2021

    A third (31%) of users indicated that they are feeling nervous about socialising, both for fear of doing so too soon and causing the further spread of Coronavirus and because of doubts about mixing comfortably in a group again. Men reported feeling more excited than women, and the group who ...

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    The nation expresses anxiety over return to work (Part 1)

    30 March 2021

    The last 12 months have brought with them incredible changes to people’s lives in all domains. Routines have been badly affected and people have suffered a significant loss; of connections, of support, of important life experiences.As lockdown was announced in the UK in March 2020, wellbeing scores of users of ...

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    Best Mental Health Monitoring & Wellbeing Platform 2021

    29 March 2021

    The nation expresses anxiety over a return to work (Part 1)The last 12 months have brought with them incredible changes to people’s lives in all domains. Routines have been badly affected and people have suffered a significant loss; of connections, of support, of important life experiences.As lockdown was announced in ...

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    Study finds mindset key to financial wellbeing

    29 March 2021

    Pensions and investment company Aegon has today (29 March) published research which has analysed the link between financial wellbeing and people’s mindsets.The Financial wellbeing index placed an equal weighting on money factors such as income levels, budgeting skills and affordability of debt, alongside mindset factors such as peoples’ ability to ...

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    What is work-life balance for your employees and how can you spot if they are having problems?

    26 March 2021

    Work-life balance is a topic that is being discussed in organisations across the globe as employees wrestle with the changing COVID workplace and lines between home and work being more blurred than ever before. How much do you know about work-life balance and could you spot the ...

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    Kavitha’s keynote: A year of home working

    26 March 2021

    This week marked the one-year anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown and, for many employees, it was also the first anniversary of their unexpected shift to full-time home working.While there is no doubt the pandemic has presented numerous challenges for employers – largely due to the very sudden need to ...

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    Mental health challenge for 70% of young employees

    26 March 2021

    Younger generations want their employers to focus far more on the mental health challenge they are facing, according to new research by social purpose strategy firm Purpose Union.The study dramatically revealed the impact the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has had on employee wellbeing, with seven in 10 (70%) of millennials and ...

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    The top 10 most-read articles between 18 March – 24 March 2021

    26 March 2021

    The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 18 March – 24 March 2021 were: Supreme Court dismisses sleep pay claimsHas the role of health cash plans changed during the pandemic?BAE Systems outlines placing mental health at the centre of wellbeing strategiesEmployee wellbeing findings a ‘wake-up call’ for actionBT gives ...

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    42% of leisure workers would hide mental health issues

    25 March 2021

    As many as 42% of leisure workers would not be honest with their employer about the need to take time off for a mental health issue, a national study has revealed.The Workforce state of mind survey 2021, which polled 1,140 individuals and employers across 81 organisations in the fitness and ...

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    Nationwide allows permanent working from home

    25 March 2021

    Nationwide Building Society has announced that all of its 13,000 office staff will be allowed to work remotely – even after restrictions urging people to do so are eased.The move means it has become one of the largest employers to formally introduce permanent working from home.In a statement, the organisation ...