Employers must continue to check in on employee wellbeing: MHFA

Employees open to have mental health discussions

Hemma Visavadia
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Some 48% of employees have stated that their employers have not checked in on their mental and physical wellbeing in the past year, according to Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.

The organisation surveyed 2,000 employed adults in February 2022 and found that only 27% of respondents reported receiving a wellbeing check-in from their employer on a monthly, or more frequent, basis. This figure is proportionately lower in comparison to last year, when at least 60% of surveyed adults had a wellbeing check-in at least once a month. With more people working from the office, MHFA argued that employers should "capitalise" on the fact that 47% of surveyed employees felt comfortable talking about their mental health issues face-to-face, suggesting an openness to have the...

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