Wellbeing at work – recent helpful resources

CIPD Good Work Index 2024

This year’s report was published in June, based on research from over 5000 UK workers from different sectors and occupations surveying how they work and their thoughts about it. This year, workplace conflict has come up as the central focus for analysis. Details of all the research findings together with insight and recommendations for practice are available on the CIPD website, with the aim of helping decision makers understand the issues so actions to improve outcomes for workers, organisations and the economy can be taken.

Disability Confident Guide for Managers

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), with assistance from the CIPD, have updated their Disability Confident Guide for Managers and anyone who leads another individual or team. It aims to help in the recruitment, management and development of disabled people and those with long-term health conditions in the workplace.

The Economic Cost of Suicide in the UK

The Samaritans have published the first figures in over a decade on the cost of suicide. They hope their report and analysis will help us begin to understand how much suicide affects the whole of society. Moreover, how important it is to target prevention of this devastating issue that triggers considerable financial and emotional costs each year.

Mental Health and Employers

The case for employers to invest in supporting working parents and a mentally health workplace

In their 4th report on mental health and the workplace, Deloitte present their latest findings based on a survey conducted in October 2023. They reveal the current cost to employers of poor mental health, as well as the expected return on investment in support measures to improve workplace mental health. For the first time, the impact of children’s mental health in terms of implications for parents’ work and performance is investigated.

The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes

In what’s believed to be the first study exploring training line managers in mental health and its link to better business outcomes, recent research by experts at the University of Nottingham found a strong association between mental health training for line managers and improved staff recruitment, retention, better customer service and lower levels of long-term mental health sickness absence. The authors conclude that this knowledge has workforce health and business performance relevance for policy and practice. It raises training’s potential to save companies millions of pounds in days lost to sickness each year.
The full study is linked to within the article link provided above.

These wellbeing at work resources were included in our late Summer 2024 e-newsletter.