Bridging Gap In Workplace Mental Health Will Help Businesses Manage Productivity – HR News

Posted on Sep 12, 2022 Mental health is a growing issue in the workplace –and the correlation between business productivity and employee wellbeing is becoming clearer.  Chris Horlick, a senior advisor to Schoen Clinic UK Group and former Distribution Director for AXA Health says: “The latest data from the Office for National Statistics forewarns of a mental health crisis likely to reverberate across the UK economy via the workforce. Businesses must apply the same rigour to mental health investment as they do to any other investment. Investing in the mental health of the workforce will lead to increased productivity and increased profitability.” Recent research by PWC has cited mental health a growing issue for employees in the UK, statistics reveal a third of the UK’s workforce compromised by issues such as depression, anxiety, or stress at any time.  Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Schoen Clinic Chelsea, Dr James Woolley, says he first began seeing an increase in people coming to him with workplace related mental health issues on a self-referral basis prior to the pandemic: “Mental health in the workplace is measurable and the kinds of issues which have an impact on productivity are things like absenteeism and even presenteeism where people turn up for…
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