{"id":765982,"date":"2026-09-10T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:02:09","slug":"how-can-bosses-improve-workers-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765982\/","title":{"rendered":"How can bosses improve worker’s mental health?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday is World Suicide Prevention Day, an annual reminder of why appreciating mental health is so important, Emily says.<\/p>\n

Stress and the significant impact it can have on people needs to be recognised by employers, she says.<\/p>\n

Companies have a legal duty of care for their employees, external<\/a>, Emily, from Burnhope near Durham, says, which includes their mental as well as physical health and safety.<\/p>\n

But it should not just be seen as an onerous requirement, she says, as a healthier workforce means fewer days lost through sickness – almost 9% of workplace ill health in 2025 was stress related, according to the Office for National Statistics, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Humans are still the main resource, and if the people are not there, you don’t have a successful business,” Emily says.<\/p>\n

Everyone wears a metaphorical backpack she says, filled with the stresses and concerns of life.<\/p>\n

Work “chucks in loads more weight”, she says, and when a backpack becomes too heavy, people become unwell.<\/p>\n

“Any senior leader that has any kind of empathy and compassion for people won’t want their business to be chucking weights into people’s backpacks until they fall over,” Emily says.<\/p>\n

“Especially when there are things that you could actually do to help to actually take some of those weights out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday is World Suicide Prevention Day, an annual reminder of why appreciating mental health is so important, Emily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}