Health and wellbeing

New and updated

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: The business case for managing stress

  Enhanced by creating four separate guides on championing a stress-free workplace, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide discusses the business benefits of proactively minimising and managing stress, including the legal duty employers have with regards to employees' health and safety.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: Understanding the causes of stress

  Leading practice guidance exploring the work-related and personal causes of stress. Understanding these causes should help to inform employers' stress-prevention and management strategies.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: Foundations for success

  Leading practice guidance discussing the key factors organisations should consider to put themselves in the best place to deter and manage stress.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: Steps to prevent and manage stress

  Leading practice guidance providing a tiered approach that organisations can adopt to create a stress-free workplace.

• Date:

  31 July 2024

  Type:

  News

  Half of retail workers could quit this winter

  Half of retail employees in the UK are at risk of leaving their jobs this winter, according to research from the Retail Trust and consulting firm AlixPartners.

• Date:

  31 July 2024

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: HR's role in rethinking office design for the contemporary workforce

  From wellness and neurodiversity to "hotelification", Rachel Basha, founder and CEO of the architecture and design practice Basha-Franklin, discusses the ways in which the shifting needs and character of the 21st-century workforce are reshaping office design.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Paid leave for victims of domestic abuse in Northern Ireland

  Updated to refer to the Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland) consultation on how to implement domestic abuse safe leave. 

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting employee mental health: The business case

  Enhanced by creating five separate guides on supporting employee mental health, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide discusses the business case for managing mental health at work and has been updated to include up-to-date research on the cost to employers of poor mental health.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting employee mental health: What employers need to know about mental ill health

  Leading practice guidance discussing the issues surrounding mental ill health that employers should understand before taking steps to deal with it.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Supporting employee mental health: Strategies and policies that support good mental health

  Leading practice guidance discussing the strategies, policies and procedures employers can adopt to foster good mental health among employees.