Heavy workloads are a major variable for mental health, The Drum’s mental health survey found
A mental health survey of marketers and agency workers conducted by The Drum has found that a majority of staff say their mental health has got worse during the pandemic, and that demanding workloads are a major factor in their mental wellbeing. Most alarming of all, almost half say their employers offer no mental health support.
It’s clear that, with client demands unlikely to decrease as the UK and US economies look forward to recovery, industry leaders need to do – and communicate – more to offset the impact on staff mental health.
Office Politics: Keeping staff sane in a world gone mad
Ewen MacPherson is Chief People Officer at Havas UK
The past twelve months have made it impossible for most of us to work like we did before.
What’s more, these lockdowns have made it apparent that working from home all of the time is tougher than many of us ever imagined. So how can employers truly support their teams to get through it and emerge, blinking maybe, but intact?
Make it possible to work
As employers, the first priority is empathy. From the start our focus has been on telling our people that ‘your best is good enough’. There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all answer to what that ‘best’ is.