Return to work: Businesses must support mental health and wellbeing of employees

Compassionate and mindful approach needed

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With the UK Government's furlough scheme slated to conclude next month and more workers potentially returning to the office in due course, particularly as schools resume, now represents a good time to take stock of the mental health landscape as it affects both employers and employees.

A survey of 3,500 participants by the Office for National Statistics revealed nearly one in five people experienced depression during a ten-day period in June 2020, compared to half that figure in the nine months to March 2020.  This year has generated an endless number of clichés, but I would suggest one of the more apt ways of describing the widespread and varied impact of Covid-19 on our collective wellbeing is the concept that "we are in the same storm but occupying different boats". FVF's Gregory: Why venture capitalists need to turn to female-founded businesses Everyone has b...

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