Wednesday 6th November is Stress Awareness Day so we thought we’d share some practical tips on coping with stress which you can use for yourself as well as to help others you are responsible for as an employer/manager. You can also use these ideas to help a colleague who you think might be struggling. New
Safeguarding Psychological Health Claims for mental health issues arising out of employment – collectively known as ’occupational stress claims’ although covering a wide variety of potential causes such as overwork, lack of support and bullying – are not new. They are, however, on the increase and as employers, it is wise to be alive to
It will probably come as no surprise to you that money is the biggest stressor for employed adults in the United Kingdom at the moment. What’s more, over a quarter of adults feel stressed about money every single day. This almost-universal nature of money worries means that employers have a responsibility to support their
Monday 17 January was named ‘Blue Monday’ by UK-based travel company, Sky Travel, as most depressing day of the year. The concept was first published in a 2005 press release from the company, which claimed to have calculated the date "mathematically".There is of course no credible evidence to suggest that one day in particular can
Management v Leadership Have you ever considered the vast difference between being a manager and a leader? Being a good manager doesn’t automatically make you a good leader. A key difference between a manager and a leader is that managers delegate tasks to those who work for them whereas leaders have people follow them
Homeworking & Flexible Working Scottish employees who work from home suffer with excessive workloads and have poorer work-life balance than those working in the office, a survey has found. The latest Working Lives Scotland report from the CIPD, which polled 1,007 people working in Scotland, found more than a third (37 per cent) of
The Great Home Working Experiment It’s been described as a lightbulb moment where managers suddenly realised that jobs can be done flexibly, a turning point for equality at work. But has this really been the case? Normally we’d implement home or flexible working in a strategic and organised way rather than sending everyone home
