All Mental health resilience articles – Page 59
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Case StudiesFletchers Solicitors takes wide-ranging approach to emotional wellbeing
Inspired by the national Mental Health Awareness Week in May 2017, Fletchers Solicitors decided to do more to support the emotional wellbeing of its 435 employees, based in Southport and Manchester.The firm invited staff to volunteer to be mental health ambassadors in February 2018, asking for employees' reasons for wanting ...
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AnalysisWhy should employers include emotional wellbeing within their overall benefits strategy?
Need to know:Employers should adopt a holistic approach in order to accommodate the varying emotional wellbeing needs of employees.Initiatives such as mental health first aid training, an employee assistance programme (EAP) and flexible working can help employees cope with wellbeing issues.Employers should ensure senior leaders are equipped to spot problems ...
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Case StudiesThe Typeface Group uses flexibility to promote emotional wellbeing
The Typeface Group is a marketing and PR organisation based in Basingstoke, Hampshire, with eight employees. As a small, but growing, employer, it strives to place the emotional wellbeing of staff at the heart of its benefits strategy, in large part this through its approach to flexible working.Natalie Weaving, director ...
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OpinionCharles Alberts: What is driving mental health today?
For a mental health programme to be successful, the employer must get to grips with the problems affecting today’s workforce, including some that might be considered taboo.In Mind's 2017/18 Workplace wellbeing index, published in October 2018, 48% of the 40,000 employees surveyed said that they had experienced a mental health ...
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OpinionGillian Connor: What can employers do to better support emotional wellbeing in the workplace?
Employers are increasingly taking an interest in the emotional wellbeing of their employees, not least because of the economic case for it. Mental health and employers: The case for investment, published by Deloitte in October 2017, demonstrated the huge cost of absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover caused by mental health ...
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ArticleYorkshire Building Society recognised for mental health best practice
Rhondda Housing Association and Yorkshire Building Society (pictured) are among the organisations recognised at the inaugural Not a Red Card Awards for implementing best practice around addressing mental health in the workplace.The event, organised by insurer Legal and General, aims to celebrate and recognise businesses and individuals that have tackled ...
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ArticleAnxiety sufferer seeks babysitter to take kids trick or treating
Something for the weekend: A mother of three in Wirral, Merseyside, who suffers from social anxiety is offering to pay a babysitter up to £50 an hour to take her children trick or treating on Halloween.In an advert placed on Childcare.co.uk, she explained: “I get very scared at Halloween because ...
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Supplier articleMental health in a changing world
Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people, and 1 in 4 adults. Shocking research by the Mental Health Foundation has found that 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by aged 24! With high statistics concerning mental health, there needs ...
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ArticleFour in five UK employees suffer from stress, a quarter of these find it unmanageable
The majority of employees in the UK (80%) are suffering from stress, and over a quarter of those (28%) consider their work-related stress to be unmanageable, according to research by health insurance organisation Cigna.The survey, which drew on 14,467 online interviews across 23 countries, highlighted the UK as the most ...
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A fifth of employees attended work while suffering mental health issues last year
More than a fifth (22%) of employees went into work when feeling mentally unwell last year, according to research by Canada Life Group Insurance.The figure, from a survey of 1,001 UK employees carried out in August 2018, shows a rise in mental health presenteeism by 4% since 2016.Paul Avis, marketing ...
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ArticleAramark launches campaign encouraging staff to take 15-minute stress-free breaks
Food services organisation Aramark Northern Europe has launched a month-long mental wellbeing campaign encouraging employers and employees to take 15-minute breaks during their working day.Aramark's 'Take15' campaign, which will run through October 2018, is aimed at the organisation's 18,000 employees in northern Europe, as well as clients and customers. The ...
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ArticleSky launches Frazzled Cafe meetings for 7,500 UK employees
Television and broadband organisation Sky has launched a programme of meetings through which employees can share stories and discuss issues affecting their mental wellbeing in partnership with the charity Frazzled Cafe.The first Frazzled Cafe meeting will occur today (10 October 2018) to coincide with World Mental Health Day. The meetings ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: ACCA launches mental health resilience workshops for wellbeing champions
EXCLUSIVE: Global professional accountancy body ACCA has launched pilot mental health resilience workshops for selected staff in London and Glasgow.The workshops, the first of which took place on 19 September 2018, offer advice on the mental and physical steps employees can take to promote wellbeing in the workplace. They are ...
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ArticleTwo-thirds of managers put organisation above staff wellbeing
Although 61% of employees have experienced a mental health issue due to work, or in which work was a contributing factor, 64% of managers put their organisation’s interests above staff wellbeing at some point, and 12% do so every day, according to a workplace mental health report by Business in ...
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ArticleKavitha's keynote: Mental health matters when it comes to wellbeing
On day one of this year’s Employee Benefits Live, which took place on 2 and 3 October at ExCeL London, Google’s Cayla Kitayama delivered the opening keynote address which explored how to put health and wellbeing at the heart of an organisation’s benefits strategy.Kitayama, who is responsible for the technology ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Google uses data to inform mental health approach for 52,000 global staff
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Technology organisation Google uses industry data and employee feedback to help inform its approach to mental health supports, and ensure its health and wellbeing provision is tailored to employee need.In the opening keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2018, titled ‘Putting health and wellbeing at the ...
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ArticleSharp Business Systems UK trains employees in mental health first aid
Fifteen employees of Sharp Business Systems UK (SBSUK) have completed a two-day adult mental health first aid training course, delivered by Mental Health First Aid England.The course is designed to educate participants to spot the symptoms of common mental health issues, to recognise early signs that someone may need help, ...
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Article42% of employees claim physical illness to hide mental health issues
As many as 42% of employees call in sick claiming to be suffering from a physical illness when the real reason is a mental health issue, according to a report by health insurance provider BHSF.The report, Hiding in plain sight: mental health in the workplace, published in September 2018, surveyed ...
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Supplier articleFive steps to drive better productivity at work
By Jonathan Burg, Group SVP, Marketing In the wake of Mental Health Awareness Week and the initiatives we put on for our people, I think it’s important to talk about how an overall holistic approach to work will help to engage your workforce and drive increased productivity.A lot of the ...
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Case StudiesLanes Group's ‘happy app’ spots signs of mental health problems
Lanes Group is aware of the demands and stresses placed on employees, and is determined to catch mental health issues as early as possible among its 900-strong workforce. It does this with a simple measurement system, using a wellbeing app to track employees’ moods.Andy Brierley, technical director at Lanes Group, ...