In a market worth $327m per year and growing at 3.7% year on year over the last five years, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) have been around for many years and are an established part of the employee services framework. Originally designed for interventions with employees who had drug and alcohol related issues, the scope of EAPs […]
A new trend is emerging in the wake of the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting and other workplace movements. It promises to relieve stress, reduce employee burnout and still deliver quality work. Known as Bare Minimum Monday, the trend’s creator Marisa Jo Mayes explained in a TikTok video that after spending Sundays mapping out her week […]
In this post-COVID era, latest statistics suggest that two in five Australians aged 16-85 years (43.7% or 8.6 million people) had experienced symptoms of a mental disorder at some time in their life and one in five Australian adults experience a mental illness every year. This could be anxiety, depression, substance abuse, anorexia and in […]
Employers have a ‘duty of care’ and the latest stats are suggesting that one in four Australian employees between the age of 16-85 have a mental health condition. This could be anxiety, depression, substance abuse, anorexia and in more serious cases this can lead to suicide. We have recently given 8 of our team members […]
Recently, a client shared with me something that was happening with one of her valued team members that just seemed so unfair and my client was at a loss as to how she could help. Her employee had recently lost her mother to a heart attack, after three weeks on life-support and she was commuting […]