Smaller businesses may soon be required to get more
involved in safeguarding their workers' mental wellbeing as
stricter regulations are on the horizon. This article
explains.
It's been the perk employees have consistently demanded, but
not always achieved: more scope to work from home. But with many
workers now approaching their first full year of home working, due
to the coronavirus pandemic, cracks are starting to show.
Isolation, reduced personal contact and increased blurring of
home-work life is now creating a brand-new epidemic, one of
ever-worsening mental health. Of course, not all of this should be
attributed to work, as there are many factors leading to
people's increased stress levels at the moment, but work
factors are surely playing a significant part.
