{"id":25292,"date":"2019-11-11T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/?p=25292"},"modified":"2020-01-06T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:04:35","slug":"mental-health-and-its-importance-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/blog\/mental-health-and-its-importance-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health and it\u2019s Importance in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"
What is mental health?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Mental health is related to our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It has a knock \u2013 on effect to how we deal with stress, how we relate to others and how we make choices.<\/p>\n As you can see, these are all things that you would need to be able to do well in almost every job and career.<\/p>\n People that have good mental health are more likely to work productively, interact with colleagues, clients and customers well, have good work attendance and overall be and feel a valuable member of the workplace.<\/p>\n Cost of poor mental health<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n In the UK, according to a Labour Force Survey report, <embed http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/statistics\/lfs\/index.htm<\/a> > an average of 15.4 million working days were lost to work related stress, depression or anxiety during 2017\/18, with an average of 25.8 days lost per case. In total, 57% of all working days lost were due to stress and anxiety. The estimated monetary cost of mental ill health to UK employers each year is between \u00a333 billion and \u00a342 billion.<\/p>\n Impact of Mental Health<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A chartered institute of personnel and development study highlighted the impact of mental health in the workplace. These include:<\/p>\n Improving mental health can only be of benefit to the workplace, to you as an employer, and to your customers and clients. Employers also have a legal obligation to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employees.<\/p>\n Organisations should be thinking about the causes of workplace stress, how to reduce them in their workplace and how best to support staff when they do experience stress.<\/p>\n So; how can we improve mental health in the workplace, reduce stress and improve productivity?<\/p>\n Managers should be aware of the common causes of stress and anxiety and how to spot them in staff. The following things should be encouraged in staff and yourself to keep anxiety and stress levels low:<\/p>\n Further support.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n If you are experiencing mental ill health, there is a lot of help and support available to you.<\/p>\n Written by Andrew Callister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is mental health? Mental health is related to our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It has a knock \u2013 on effect to how we deal with stress, how we relate to others and how we make choices. As you can see, these are all things that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312400,"featured_media":25293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[188,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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