Mental Health at Work, Why is StressFactor useful?
Paul Finch, Founder and CEO of APeopleBusiness discusses why StressFactor provides business with the answers to Mental Health.
APB surfaces the true cost of stress amongst HR Professionals
If you are interested in the results or any aspect of our work, please make contact with Paul. APeopleBusiness recently surveyed 170 HR Managers and Senior Professionals using their newly launched Stress Analytics product StressFactor. Paul Finch, Founder and CEO, says " we have established that HR professionals are losing [...]
Legal adviser unfairly fired over terror stress
A legal adviser who was fired after developing post-traumatic stress from debriefing a terrorist serial killer has won her claim for unfair dismissal. Wendy Lewis, who worked for the Public Defender Service, debriefed the terrorist - described as "dangerous and violent" - in an assignment lasting more than three years instead of the predicted [...]
Is recruitment a key to better workforce mental health?
I think the recruitment strategy and function holds many of the aces! It’s been a year now since I made the conscious decision to add mental health campaigning / consultancy and stress diagnostic product development to my professional toolkit. This year of learning, personal development and practicing has enabled me to establish and confirm [...]
The Three P’s in Mental Health
I am regularly asked what businesses can do to approach and succeed in optimising employee mental health and wellbeing, and the answer is always bespoke to each organisation. Businesses come in all shapes, sizes, geographies, industry sectors, purposes, etc, so no single, off the shelf, activity or programme fits all. However, there are three core [...]
The professional approach to engaging employees in mental health conversation
Some hard facts In our experience anything up to two thirds of the people attending a talk on mental wellbeing will have intimate experience of mental ill health! Some people will ‘open up’, so you must be prepared, as they will be at their most vulnerable. Introducing ‘open’ mental health conversation into an organisation is [...]
The sensitivity surrounding ‘opening up’ to mental health
The volume of conversation and focus surrounding mental health and wellbeing in the UK is heart-warming. It’s on everyone’s lips following the work and campaigning of a great number of amazing people, including; mental health champions, charities, the Royal Family, celebrities, politicians and business leaders. The predominant interest from businesses and HR at present [...]