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Mental health in the workplace

Businesswoman Being Gossiped About By Colleagues In Office

No one is happy all the time, but when does a ‘bad day at the office’ become something more serious? Would you or your employees recognise the signs and be able to support someone that is suffering with poor mental health?

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77% of UK employees say they have experienced symptoms of poor mental health at some time in their lives.

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62% of employees attributed their symptoms of poor mental health to work or said that work was a contributing factor

Employers have a ‘duty of care’ concerning mental as well as physical health but despite this, only 10% of businesses have a robust mental health policy in place.

Time is your most valuable asset

Over the past few years, extensive research has taken place to evaluate mental health in the workplace and the results are staggering.

A total of 91 million days are lost to mental health problems every year, costing the economy approximately £30 billion per year.

Poor mental health is on the increase and has become the number one factor attributed to absenteeism and presenteeism.

Whilst the need is clear, the solution is difficult for employers to take on themselves. Mental health is still a taboo subject surrounded by stigma and discrimination that creates unrest for those suffering from or supporting mental health issues.

Online surveys and toolkits can help point the way, but this is an added responsibility and time consuming task that can easily lose momentum due to other priorities. Mental health is a specialist subject that requires professional insight to understand and many years of experience to deliver effective solutions.

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63% of line managers feel they have to put corporate interests before employee wellbeing.

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76% of line managers believe they are responsible for employee wellbeing, but only 22% have received training.

Our purpose

A montage of images representing a healthy life and work balanceWe help create positive mental health cultures to improve business performance by increasing awareness, good practice, confidence, accessibility, productivity and profitability.

We do this by bringing together people together in the workplace to understand what needs to change and put practical solutions in place to ensure mental health equality is achieved for the benefit of business, your staff and customers.

News and events

Workshops and Training

Fully-funded* leadership development in preventing and managing poor mental health now available. Workplace Mental Health (WMH) has been appointed as a main provider on the Executive Development Programme with the Business Growth Hub (BGH). The programme is available across the Greater Manchester region and will deliver leadership development to owners, directors and senior leaders to […]

Workplace Mental Health launch a huge success!

On Friday 5th May 2017, businesses, public services, education and other local organisations met at the Octagon Theatre Bolton to support the launch of Workplace Mental Health Limited. The new Social Enterprise, unveiled its services that will support employers across the Greater Manchester region to support their employees mental health with the same parity as […]

About us

Workplace Mental Health Limited is a new social enterprise from MhIST (Mental Health Independent Support Team) a successful and highly regarded charity in Bolton. … Continue reading »

Our contact info

Workplace Mental Health Limited
Hanover House
Hanover Street
Bolton
BL1 4TG

Tel: 01204 537 897

chris.gold@workmentalhealth.co.uk

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