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“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year” Vern McLellan A new year gives us an opportunity to start something new or to improve our existing habits, however, without a concrete commitment or plan, our good intentions won’t be enough. If you have […]

Statistics recently released by Towergate Health and Protection, show that women are more likely to suffer from mental health conditions, but men are half as likely to seek support in the workplace. By reviewing who was accessing Employee Assistance Programmes, they were able to see that  men are half as likely to reach out for […]

Many organisations have a very superficial view on employee wellbeing and health in the workplace and believe that it only involves implementing health and safety legislation. Initiatives are often very generous and well meaning, but fail to address the real underlying issues that impact on individual and organisational health. Below you can learn if your […]

26% of employees believe that they have been discriminated against because of their gender, based on survey findings of SMELoans 2021. It is not an issue exclusive to women as many may think, in fact, both men and women believed that ‘people of the opposing gender get away with more in the workplace,’ when asked […]

The Healthy Place to Work® model consists of four broad pillars of wellbeing, each of which comprises several elements. More detail reading about the four pillars is available in our White Paper “The Science of Wellbeing”. The pillars are: Purpose Mental Resilience Connection Physical Health Our model implicitly recognises that mental and physical health are […]

Mental Health is not binary. We are living in an age where people want to distil the complex into the simple. But sometimes life’s complexities can’t be summarised, explained or solved in a sentence. Too often people want the answer to be black or white, right or wrong, my side or your side, without recognising that […]

Many organisations have a very superficial view on health and believe it is about implementing health and safety legislation, fruit in the office, maybe desk yoga, cycle to work to work schemes, mental Health talks or well-being days. We’ve identified 7 areas where we believe organisations are getting Health and Well-being wrong. 1. The Wrong […]