As agencies don yellow for R U OK? Day today, the organisation’s workplace program manager wants public sector workplaces to think beyond the cupcakes.
Julie-Anne Whitfield said the annual morning tea is just a stage for the big conversations every workplace needs to have about mental health.
She said people should “Ask, ‘Are you okay?’ any day.”
“Wellbeing becomes performative when it is treated as an event. It becomes meaningful when it changes how people are led, supported, and included every day,” she said.