Working Well News
August 2009
Working Well public seminars
Working Well is running a series of public workshops in Auckland over September, October and November, covering topics such as:
• Workplace responsibility around mental illness.
• Understanding what mental illness is and how it can affect work.
• How to have effective conversations confidently with employees when mental health is an issue.
• Have practical tools to take back to your business.
Nov Update: Workshops are now closed.
Mental Health and wellbeing at the workplace - protection and inclusion in challenging times
Professor Karl Kuhn, talking recently at the international Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Conference, made some powerful statements that organisations are only as good as their people, and that the best way to have healthy employees is to have a healthy organisation. Improving the work environment and nurturing staff has mutual and multiple benefits.
July 2009
Employers can help staff remain resilient in tough times
A recent article published by the EEO Trust features Working Well's Senior Consultant Anna McNaughton and Vero Health and Safety Manager Glenys Barker, who discuss the importance of creating and maintaining mentally healthy workplaces.
First published in Diversity in Action, the quarterly magazine of the EEO Trust.
April 2009
Depression in the workforce
It's estimated that depression costs the Australian economy 6.3 billion dollars.
But what about the personal cost?
If you're working, it can be incredibly hard to confide in your boss, especially if the culture of the workplace doesn't allow you to speak openly about your troubles.
Graeme Cowan fell into a black hole in 2001 and describes the next five years as a nightmare.
He's now recovered and is working towards furthering workplace understanding of the illness.
Listen now 13:36 minutes
Source: ABC Radio National, Life Matters, Australia
17 April 2009
The cost of illness
It's estimated that depression costs the Australian economy 6.3 billion dollars.
But what about the personal cost?
The cost of illness to New Zealand employers is likely to be $2 billion a year across the whole workforce, or more than $1,500 per employee, a new study has found.
