Mental health needs to be 'boardroom agenda'

Today is ‘Time to Talk Day’

Adam Saville
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Workplace pressure impacts business leaders and staff are under-trained

With people spending the majority of their time at work, people need to feel more "comfortable" about discussing mental health in the workplace and this change needs to come from the top, CEO of City Mental Health Alliance, Poppy Jaman, has argued on Time to Talk Day.  Research by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in 2017 revealed that more than half of business leaders have encountered poor mental health, indicating that a lack of work-life balance and heavy workloads has an impact on more senior members of staff, while additional findings from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) hi...

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