Mental Health In The Workplace Blog
A Great Place To Work
By Director of Culture and Associates Tamsen Garrie. I recently attended the Great Place To Work For All Summit in sunny San Francisco with five of my wonderful colleagues from Nurseline Healthcare, the company for which I've been Director of Culture for five years....
Creating an environment where people can DOSE themselves up with Happy Hormones
Whilst there are a number of specific things that can be done to address mental health in the workplace when it becomes a problem, fundamentally improving mental health in the workplace starts with culture. Why culture? This is because whilst solutions like...
Blue Monday – Myth or Reality?
For the last 15 years the third Monday in January has become known as “Blue Monday” and it’s said to be the most depressing day of the year. But is this actually true? The short answer is - no. According to various online sources, Blue Monday was originally launched...
Our Mental Health at Work Quiz – The Results Are In!
Our short Mental Health at Work quiz highlights the six areas of ‘work design’ that, according to the HSE, are the primary sources of stress at work (demands, control, support, relationships, role and change). When they are not managed well, these areas of work design...
What are the Mental Health Core Standards?
In January 2017 the Prime Minister commissioned a review by Lord Stevenson and Paul Farmer (CEO of Mind, and Chair of the NHS Mental Health Taskforce) into workplace mental health. The purpose of this review was to investigate how employers can better support all...
The Role of Culture In Managing Mental Health In The Workplace
Once we understand the implications of mental ill-health for our organisation and therefore the benefits of managing it, as well as what specifically causes work-related stress that can ultimately lead to mental ill-health, then we can decide what to do about it. IT...
Metro Bank – an example to follow
It is now widely known that one in four people in the UK will be suffering with a mental health issue of some sort at any one time. We also know that whilst not all mental health issues are caused directly by work, work has been shown to play a significant role in...
Work-related Stress and What Causes It
If you've read our previous blogs, you'll know that the vast majority of mental health issues and conditions are caused by stress. In the workplace, the primary ways in which stress and mental ill-health manifest are anxiety and depression, which although not always...
Does your organisation need Mental Health Awareness Training?
Did you know that 37% of work-related ill-health cases in the UK are mental health related, costing an average of £1,035 per employee, per year?If there was ever a reason for organisations to review their working environment in terms of the impact it has on employees...
Did Manchester United lose to Barcelona due to presenteeism?
At Mental Health in the Workplace we often get approached by organisations concerned about the financial cost of absenteeism from mental health issues like anxiety and depression. However, when we start working with our clients, we often identify that they have a...
Every week in the UK 28 men do something that devastates potentially hundreds of people!
These men, more often than not, appear to be going about their everyday lives as they always have. Perhaps a little different, but not much it seems. Then we hear the news that we really didn’t see coming. We don’t understand and can see no obvious signs that led to...
Why prioritise mental wellbeing in your workplace?
In the past few years, the business conversation around mental health has increased. This has been influenced in part by: The worrying statistics around mental health in the workplace and the impact on society, businesses and government The increasing evidence that...
What causes work-related stress?
In the past few years, businesses attention on mental health has increased significantly. This has been influenced, in part, by the worrying statistics around mental health in the workplace and the increasing evidence that happy and healthy people are more engaged and...
Why manage mental health in the workplace?
The World Health Organisation predicts that depression will be the world’s most common illness by 2030 and suggests that the global burden of the condition will be greater than for diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Fortunately, as a society, we are now recognising...
Is work making you stressed?
Last year in the UK 11.7 million working days were lost to stress-related issues with a huge impact on businesses in terms of revenue, efficiency and staff retention. That means that 45 of all working days lost due to ill health were down to stress. Time off might be...
Threat Stress versus Challenge Stress
Last year in the UK 11.7 million working days were lost to businesses due to stress and the impact was huge in terms of lost revenue, inefficiency, low productivity and low employee retention. The physical impacts of stress can be tracked easily enough through those...