Workforce management systems can help monitor and improve employee wellbeing

Besides enabling employers to check whether workers arrive and leave on time, managing payroll or annual leave, workforce management systems can be also used for improving the staff’s wellbeing.

Workplace wellbeing support is worse in the public sector than in the private sector, according to research from mental health charity Mind, who surveyed 12,000 employees across both sectors. The study found a higher prevalence of mental health issues in the public sector, as well as a lack of support available when people speak up.

Nearly twice the number of public sector respondents said their mental health was poor than their peers in the private sector (15% versus 9%), and felt anxious at work on more occasions over the last month (53% compared to 43%).

Less than half (49%) of people working in the public sector said they felt supported when they had disclosed mental health problems, compared with three in five (61%) in the private sector.

The research suggested the impact of this lack of support could be significant. Public sector survey respondents reported that, on average, they had taken nearly three days off sick in the last year because of their mental health, compared to just under one day on average for workers in the private sector.

Almost half (48%) of public sector workers had taken time off because of their mental health, compared with less than a third (32%) of the private sector workforce surveyed.

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