Amy Leech, employment law associate and Shoosmiths’ mental health and wellbeing champion, considers the benefits of having an employee led mental health champion network within your business.
As an employer, you will have lots of opportunities to look after your employees’ mental health. However, many organisations are still just paying lip service to it. Lots of businesses are sending employees to mental health talks or providing employees with an additional “wellbeing” day off. But do short term activities such as these really go to the root of the problem?
I am not suggesting that a business’s approach to mental health can be changed overnight. It is an ongoing and ever evolving focus. What sets great employers apart from the rest is those who grab these opportunities with both hands and really attempt to make a difference for their employees’ wellbeing in the knowledge that doing so will increase productivity and loyalty.
Employers need to listen to their employees to understand what negatively affects their mental health and consider what solutions could reasonably be put in place to help alleviate such effects or at least to help those individuals perform to their potential in the workplace. Employers need to be open minded and provide a non-judgmental and supportive environment for employees to open up about their mental health. An example of something employers can do to work towards such an environment is to set up a network of mental health and wellbeing...
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