How to help employees take care of their own wellbeing during a crisis
Help employees manage stress during a crisis by encouraging them to research reliable information, accept their emotions as normal, maintain healthy habits like sleep and exercise, and limit exposure to unreliable news sources that fuel anxiety.
Practising mindfulness through times of uncertainty
Embedding mindfulness practise into our daily lives can help us maintain good mental health during unsettling times.
Coronavirus: the role of the unexpected remote manager
Forced remote work during COVID-19 differs fundamentally from planned remote arrangements and requires managers to adopt flexible, context-aware approaches. Managers should understand their team members’ individual circumstances and adjust expectations accordingly, as working from home under pandemic conditions presents unique mental and logistical challenges.
Four ways to support employee financial wellbeing during the coronavirus outbreak
Employers can help ease employee financial worries during the coronavirus crisis by explaining benefits like Statutory Sick Pay, travel insurance coverage, and directing staff to financial guidance resources. Supporting employees’ financial wellbeing helps them focus on protecting their health.
Mental ill health: should HR rebrand the ‘stress risk assessment’?
Stress risk assessments have been widely misunderstood.
Three ways to improve employee engagement with your new health and wellbeing strategy
Boost employee engagement when launching a new health and wellbeing strategy by involving staff in naming the program, running themed launch activities, and ensuring line managers understand and champion the benefits available to workers.
Eating disorders in the workplace: how can HR help?
Supporting employees who are experiencing eating disorders.
Coronavirus: six steps to prepare your organisation for a pandemic
Prepare your organisation for potential pandemic disruption with dedicated response plans. Unlike typical business continuity strategies, pandemics require unique approaches because they disproportionately affect people, unfold over weeks or months, and create cascading impacts across human resources, supply chains, and operations.
Employee wellbeing: how to support employees riding the waves of chronic pain
It’s time for employers to better understand chronic pain and take it more seriously.
Coronavirus: How should HR prepare?
HR departments should prepare now for potential coronavirus spread by updating travel policies, discouraging presenteeism, and establishing clear communication protocols for employees to stay home when sick. Proactive planning can help contain outbreaks and protect your workforce and community.
Wellbeing at work: the hidden cost of divorce and separation to business
Why don’t more employers offer support for divorced or separated workers?
Workplace wellbeing: is wearable technology the new data source for HR?
Wearable technology gives HR teams an opportunity to improve their wellbeing offering.
Mental wellbeing at work: how organisations can DOSE employees happy
How to encourage the production of ‘happy hormones’ at work.
Workplace wellbeing: how to encourage good nutrition at work
Ideas to encourage a healthier eating culture in your organisation.
Wellbeing at work: why we need a more human-centred workplace
Wellbeing strategies aren’t addressing the root causes of mental health issues among employees.
Mental health at work: giving men a voice
We need to give men the space to express vulnerability and talk about their mental health.
Employee wellbeing: Is presenteesim a symptom of flexible working?
The CIPD reports rising presenteeism despite flexible working advocacy. While 83% of employees work when unwell, this may reflect outdated absence management policies rather than a genuine wellbeing problem, particularly when remote work enables people to contribute meaningfully during illness.
Unconscious bias: How systemic inequality is destroying employee wellbeing
Before we can truly say we’ve invested in wellbeing, we need to tackle unconscious bias and systemic inequality.
Back to the future: HR lessons from the last decade and predictions for the next one
It’s time to focus on the human element of HR.
Financial wellbeing: Why 2020 should be the year that employers offer financial education
Employee financial worries are significantly impacting workplace productivity and mental health, with money concerns causing more stress than work itself. As personal debt reaches record highs and wage growth stagnates, employers must prioritize financial education in 2020 to address this growing wellbeing crisis.
