Discussing mental health in the workplace
Workplace mental health is one of the last taboos around. Ensure you as the employer open up the discussion and listen to conversations around it.
Workplace mental health is one of the last taboos around. Ensure you as the employer open up the discussion and listen to conversations around it.
That the office should be a place of professional behaviour goes without saying. But some bosses are still known to add strict workplace rules to the mix to make sure staff don’t run amok.
By Staff writer
It’s often been said that family business underpins the UK economy. From small enterprises to large behemoths, more than 30,000 family owned businesses operate in the UK, generating £1.3tn in turnover, more than one quarter of the national GDP and employing over 12m people.
Despite the recent enthusiasm for wellness initiatives, UK bosses have been dubbed strict by their staff, with 54.6 per cent feeling there is now less tolerance at work.
With the government committed to doubling exports to £1tn by 2020, the CBI is calling for an independent, national exports commission to be established.