Blue Monday – How Employers Can Recognise and Help Struggling Employees
While ‘Blue Monday’ is widely credited to a travel company, with the goal of selling more holidays, feeling blue after the return to work can often be a very real…
January: time for employers to tackle burnout
Having been identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”, “burnout” is a responsibility firmly at the door of employers. While…
One in every eight company employees in the UK has taken time off work for stress in the last year
Concerning new research reveals the scale of the UK’s stress epidemic in workplaces. Conducted by the Dolan Contractor Group, experts in contractor payroll and accountancy, the Stress in the Workplace…
Most sick days taken in November, not National Sickie Day, Blue Monday – or even in the worst British weather
National Sickie Day and Blue Monday can’t compete with a pre-Christmas Monday for staff calling in sick, according to new research from e-days. The data, taken from a subset of…
Calls to EAP provider increased by 22% on ‘Blue Monday’ 2018
The fun of the festive season is over, everyone is back at work and the nights are dark and cold. Compounded by the despair over failed New Year’s resolutions and…
Employers not providing mental health support are letting down their staff
No money, Christmas weight to lose and never ending cold dark days are just some of the miserable realities many people face in January, culminating on Blue Monday (21 January),…
Are your employees suffering the January blues or is it something more serious?
It’s ‘Blue Monday’ on 21st January, widely considered the most depressing day of the year, as the gloomy weather, high debt levels after Christmas and failed new year resolutions take their…
Four ways SME’s can help staff with Blue Monday & money worries – without giving payrises
Neyber, the financial wellbeing company, says that one of the main reasons people feel low on Blue Monday is because of money worries. Heidi Allan, Head of Employee Wellbeing of…