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Well-Being
5 stories about well-being - what is happening, and what to do about it.
Health and Safety Executive · 5 days ago
HSE urges employers to take action on work-related stress during Stress Awareness Week
The regulator's message is not about wellbeing perks. It is that stress is a health and safety risk, and an employer assesses it the way it assesses any other: find the causes, ask the people affected, act. HSE still says many employers do not realise they must - and its six areas, from demands to change, are all things a manager shapes.
HR Executive · 31 August 2026
Workplace wellbeing: The awareness gap has closed. The execution gap persists
Awareness was never the bottleneck. Most of these organisations call burnout a strategic risk, and still nearly half have not made wellbeing anybody's actual job. What is missing is not belief but a mechanism - and a mechanism nobody owns is just the last person who cared, until they move team.
Emergency Services Times · 27 August 2026
With a focus on culture, staff and patients benefit from the WAST way in Wales
Real work, and as interesting for what they refused as for what they built - no competency framework, just three principles teams read locally. One thing is missing, as it is from almost every culture programme: a number showing what changed.
Mental Health First Aid England · 2 February 2026
The cost of workplace silence: Nearly half of employees feel unsafe speaking up at work, new research reveals
The last figure is the one for a board: 15% made a preventable mistake because raising it felt more dangerous than letting it happen. Silence is not a wellbeing line item here, it is an operational risk with a defect rate attached.
Engage for Success · 2026
Productivity Starts with People: Key Findings from the 2026 Engage for Success Annual Survey
Engage for Success asked whether leaders and managers put people issues first. Where staff saw both do it, engagement stood at 79%; where they saw neither, it was 50%, and more than a third of staff saw neither. The same report links command-and-control management with more stress and more people keeping quiet about problems, so the gap is less about perks than about how a manager runs the week.