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Employers
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there members of your staff taking a lot of sick leave? ·
The
CBI estimates that 175 million
working days are lost due to ill health every year. The Health and
Safety Executive estimates that one in five days lost working days (36 million)
are due to occupational ill health. This costs the nation around
£13 billion a year.
Mental
ill health – mainly caused by
work-related stress - adds another £8.4
billion to the bill, including a total
of £2.4 billion which employers spend on replacing staff who leave their jobs
because of poor mental health. ·
For
employers who take small, cost-effective steps to manage issues such as stress
more effectively, there are clear business benefits. ·
Somerset
County Council
invested £339,000 in identifying the causes of stress and tackling them
more effectively. As a result, the average annual sickness absence rate has
fallen by two days. The Council estimates that this is saving £1.9 million
every year. So,
for every £1 invested, more than £5.50 was saved ·
GlaxoSmithKline's programmes to promote
individual and team resilience has brought productivity increases of 13 per cent. ·
BT’s
mental health wellbeing strategy
reduced mental health-related absence by 30%. Counselling
and life coaching are very effective ways of addressing difficulties. Whether
problems arise out of something to do with home or personal life, or are a
consequence of something work-related, we can demonstrate that counselling helps
people deal with their problems, and become happier and more productive at work.
A
course of seven counselling sessions will cost under £400, and our statistics
show that the majority of people that we have seen for counselling report
significantly fewer absences from work after counselling. That
is not all. Not every unhappy member of staff takes time off work. Some will
come into work even though they are not really up to it (“presenteeism”). A
“presentee” is often late, or makes mistakes or is less productive. He or
she also uses up colleagues’ time, discussing their problems, and so
interfering with their productivity, too.
The low mood of one individual is infectious. A productive team becomes
less industrious when they become caught up in the problems of one of its
members. The
workplace is not the appropriate place to deal with emotional problems, any more
that it is the place to address physical health issues. Employers have no
difficulty in sending a member of staff with a twisted ankle, or a fever, to
their GP. Equally, the best place to tackle emotional problems is in
counselling. Many people find it easier to talk to a stranger about their problems, and counselling can benefit anyone – not just those with a diagnosis of mental illness. With
20 years of experience in the field, we are able to set up a flexible, high
quality and efficient counselling service for employees that is accessible, that
operates seamlessly and which is well received by employers and employees alike.
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