Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health at Work

Safeguarding employee wellbeing and mental health is not only an ethical requirement, but a legal one too. Discover how you can support your employees’ wellbeing with our range of content.

Blogs

The return to work for furloughed employees

Approximately 9.5 million jobs, from 1.2 million different employers were furloughed in the UK as part of the government’s job retention scheme. As the scheme winds down, business leaders are…

The power of gratitude in the workplace

It’s a good feeling when someone says thank you and the power of gratitude in the workplace can be hugely significant. Saying thank you is easy, so why is it…

Mental Health Awareness Week celebrates kindness

This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is focusing on kindness. The theme couldn’t be more apt or better timed. In such unprecedented times, anxiety levels are running high. People who…

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Is Covid-19 an opportunity to reinvent ourselves?

Thanks to Covid 19, the world is anything but normal just now, and we are all going to have to embrace uncertainty for the next few months. This is grim…

Switching the lights on, turning the brains off

Christmas offers the perfect opportunity for employees to switch off and recharge. As we down tools and head home for Christmas, the constant pinging of emails hitting the inbox shudders…

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Have sobriety and purpose killed the office Christmas party?

The booze-fuelled office Christmas party has long been an essential date in the business calendar. But now businesses across the UK are rethinking it. Boozy parties are out. Volunteering for…

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Five ideas to encourage better employee physical health

The correlation between improved mental health and wellbeing, and employee physical health through exercise is indisputable. According to The Mental Health Foundation physical activity has a huge potential to enhance…

Is your business engaging with this growing workforce?

This blog was written and contributed to WeThrive by Becky Hesilrige. Millennials, baby boomers, gen X and gen Z. According to the media, we are in the midst of generational…

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The consensus on whether banning out of hours emails would do more harm than good

Last week we were fascinated to learn of recent research from University of Sussex which suggested that banning staff from accessing their work emails outside office hours could do more…

Every suicide is a tragedy: do businesses have a role to play in suicide prevention?

Tomorrow, World Mental Health Day will focus on suicide prevention. The World Health Organisation (WHO) report that close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one…

What does bringing your whole self to work actually mean, and why does it matter?

Is holding back vulnerability a good thing in the workplace or not? Some business leaders implore employees to hang up any personal problems at the door when they come to…

What can you do to avoid employee burn out?

What is employee burn out?  Have you been faced with a deadline so important that it simply must be done, but find yourself sitting at your desk in the afternoon…

Webinars

21st November 2023 at 14:00 | GMT

Andy Holmes: A Wellbeing Framework for 2024

International Speaker and Head of Wellbeing & High Performance, Andy Holmes will discuss how to create a wellbeing framework that will help your managers and employees thrive in 2024 and beyond.

White Papers

Why Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health Matters

Did you know that 16 million workers will be looking for a new role in the next six months, and mental health is a driving factor for 59% of them? The message is clear - look after your employees or you may lose them.

Guides

Wellbeing in the workplace: the game-changer guide

  This guide on Wellbeing In The Workplace has been created in association with Access Group. Based on our collective experience and the data collected in our surveys, we have…