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Two-thirds don't want to talk about money issues at work

Date:: 6 November 2019

Two-thirds of employees do not feel comfortable talking about their finances at work, despite a fifth struggling to make ends meet.

Blanket out-of-hours email bans do more harm than good

Date:: 21 October 2019

Banning staff from accessing emails outside office hours could harm their wellbeing rather than improve work-life balance, a study from the University of Sussex has claimed.

Acas menopause guide encourages inclusive policies

Date:: 18 October 2019

Acas has published new guidance to help employers support the estimated two million women who have difficulties at work due to menopause symptoms.

Government promises better wellbeing support for frontline police officers

Date:: 11 July 2019

The government has announced plans to improve wellbeing for frontline police after publishing a review that shows officers to be under huge mental and physical strain.

Just one day of work per week benefits mental health

Date:: 20 June 2019

Work is good for your mental health, even if you only do one day a week, according to researchers from Cambridge and Salford universities

'Alarming' levels of PTSD identified among police workforce

Date:: 10 May 2019

Almost a fifth of police officers experience symptoms of either post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or "Complex PTSD", with PTSD rates in law enforcement almost five-times higher than across the general population.

Vodafone offers staff who experience domestic abuse additional leave

Date:: 7 March 2019

Vodafone Group is to offer all staff who experience domestic abuse 10 days' additional paid "safe leave", after it found almost a third of workers in the UK had experienced domestic abuse in some form.

'Proactive' OH service needed to improve NHS staff wellbeing

Date:: 21 February 2019

More support and a "proactive" occupational health service is needed to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of the 1.4 million NHS staff who work in some of the "most challenging conditions imaginable", Health Education England (HEE) has urged.

Four out of five police officers feel stressed or anxious

Date:: 14 February 2019

Seventy-nine per cent of police officers say they have felt feelings of stress and anxiety in the past 12 months according to a Police Federation of England and Wales survey of its members.

Flexible working doesn't diminish mums' chronic stress

Date:: 28 January 2019

Biological indications for chronic stress are 40% higher in women bringing up two children while working full-time compared with colleagues with no children.

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