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Sickness absence survey 2015
- Authors:
- EEF, JELF
- Publisher:
- EEF
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the findings of a national survey which looks at manufactures’ experiences of sickness absence. The survey questionnaire was sent to companies across the UK and 345 responses were returned, covering 83,654 employees. The key messages arising from the survey are: five years on, the government’s fit note is not working, with just over two-fifths of employers disagreeing that it has enabled those absent from work to return to work earlier; there is an increasing concern about growing long-term sickness levels; fewer than a fifth of companies measure the economic cost of sickness absence; overall sickness absence remains low at 2.2 per cent but, long-term absence sees largest rise in five years; two fifths of companies see long-term absence rise; mental health issues most difficult to make work adjustments for and only one in ten companies provide manager mental health training. The report makes a number of recommendations for policy makers to help: resolve long-term sickness absence through a more effective Fit for Work service, diagnosis and treatment and incentives for employers; ensure fit note works as intended; and provide evidence based and outcome focused health and wellbeing benefits and services. (Edited publisher abstract)
Work issues for young people with psychosis: barriers to employment
- Authors:
- BASSETT Jo, LLOYD Chris, BASSETT Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64(2), February 2001, pp.66-72.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Young people who have had a mental illness face significant barriers to both gaining and maintaining employment. This Australian study uses a qualitative design consisting of two focus groups, to identify the issues experienced by young people diagnosed with psychosis wanting to gain employment. The themes identified in this study concern loss, low self-confidence and self-esteem, stigma, treatment issues, the need for support, and difficulties in identifying and achieving goals.
The dynamics of being disabled
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(4), October 2000, pp.645-668.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself - disability - is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the "disability trajectories" they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.
Disrupted transitions? Young adults and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Authors:
- SMYTH Emer, NOLAN Anne
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 90
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
This study seeks to fill a gap in knowledge about the extent of disruption caused by the pandemic to young adults at a crucial time of transition in their lives and the consequences of this disruption for their mental health. It draws on an online survey, which was completed by 2,277 young adults, 33 per cent of the total sample, most of whom were 22 years of age at the time. The report focuses on disruption to employment, education and social activities, and associations with mental health and wellbeing. Chapter 2 provides a more detailed overview of the relevant national and international literature on these issues. Chapter 3 presents the results for disruptions to employment, education and social activities while Chapter 4 presents the results for mental health and wellbeing. We conclude in Chapter 5 with a summary and discussion of the findings, along with a set of implications for policy. While rates of serious illness and mortality due to COVID-19 among young people have been low, the impact on their daily lives has been substantial. The analysis in this report documents the disruptions to employment, education and daily activities of this group, and assesses the implications for their mental health and wellbeing. The scale of the disruption, and impact on mental health and wellbeing, was extensive. In terms of mental health, the data show large and significant increases in depressive symptoms between the ages of 20 and 22, with over 55 per cent of females, and 41 per cent of males, exceeding the threshold for clinically significant depression at age 22. (Edited publisher abstract)
Added value: mental health as a workplace asset
- Authors:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION, UNUM
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 57
- Place of publication:
- London
This study examines distress in the workplace to understand the experiences of people working while experiencing distress, explore the ways that managers and organisations respond to distress expressed by staff and to recommend whole-workplace strategies that support those who experience mental health problems and maximise the overall mental health of the workplace. The research involved qualitative interviews, large-scale survey data and a cost analysis to demonstrate the value added to the economy by employing people with mental health problems. Findings are presented in five sections: the economic importance of safeguarding mental health in the workplace, including a cost analysis; the benefits of work to mental health, drawing on qualitative interviews and the survey results; people’s experiences of mental health at work, focusing primarily on survey data to explore sickness absence and ; barriers to disclosure, including stigma and discrimination; and supporting mental health at work, which looks at what people feel their employers did well, and what they feel their company could do to improve the mental health of the workforce. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health at work report 2016: national employee mental wellbeing survey findings 2016
- Author:
- BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY
- Publisher:
- Business in the Community
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- London
Report on the findings from two surveys which explore mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, with a focus on the role of the line manager. The primary focus is on a survey of 3,036 full and part-time employees in the UK representative of gender, age, industry sector, region and business size, excluding sole traders. It also highlights additional data drawn from a parallel public open survey of 16,246 responses. The findings discuss the level of mental health issues reported, the disconnect between what the organisations believe is taking place to support their employees and what employees experience, the culture of silence that exists around mental health issues, the role of line managers, and policies to support employees. The results found that 77% say they have experienced symptoms of poor mental health at some point in their lives, with 62 per cent attributing their symptoms of poor mental health to work or felt that work was a contributing factor. Although 76 per cent of line managers believe they are responsible for employee wellbeing, only 22 per cent said they had received training. The report makes a number of recommendations and a call to action for employers to: talk about mental health, invest in training for all employees, and to take action to improve support for employees. (Edited publisher abstract)
British social attitudes: 33
- Editors:
- CURTICE John, PHILLIPS Miranda, CLERY Liz
- Publisher:
- NatCen Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 137
- Place of publication:
- London
Annual British Social Attitudes report which asks a sample of approximately 3,000 people what they think it is like to live in Britain and what they think about how Britain is run. This edition focuses on social class; welfare reform, specifically people's views on reducing expenditure and limiting the circumstances when benefits can be received; employment; dissatisfaction with the NHS and its funding; attitudes to mental health and mental wellbeing; politics; Euroscepticism; and views on Brexit. (Edited publisher abstract)
Health and wellbeing at work: a survey of employees, 2014
- Authors:
- STEADMAN Karen, WOOD Martin, SILVESTER Hannah
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 171
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on findings from a Department for Work and Pensions commissioned survey into the relationship between health and work. The survey also aimed to monitor progress in the Health and Work policy programme and to build on evidence on what has worked to help people on sick leave return to work. The survey comprised telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,013 employees, and incorporated a boost sample of an additional 358 employees who had been off work sick for more than two weeks in the last 12 months. Questions covered employees’ experience of health and work, their history of sickness absence in the preceding 12 months and their views on the government's Fit for Work policy. The survey findings provide an overview of employee health and sickness absence in the UK; employees views about how health affected their work; the impact of health and wellbeing-related policies at work; and the effect of workplace culture, including relationships, trust and disclosure, effort, reward, and stress. The report also looks at factors associated with sickness absence of more than two weeks; the management of health conditions in the workplace; and respondents’ views about the Fit for Work service. (Edited publisher abstract)
WORKSTEP customer survey
- Authors:
- PURVIS Ann, LAW Rebecca, LOWREY James
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 127p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings from a two stage piece of research into customer experience and a baseline of the existing WORKSTEP customers. WORKSTEP is supported employment programme aimed to help disabled people find and retain work either in jobs in the open labour market, via supported placements with mainstream employers, or within supported businesses established to employ disabled people. The first stage was a quantitative survey of 1,009 WORKSTEP customers. Stage two consisted of a smaller qualitative survey of 98 customer interviews. The survey was carried out between October 2008 and July 2009. The baseline data collected will feed into an evaluation of the Work Choice Programme, which is set to replace WORKSTEP in October 2010.
Mental health: part 1: report
- Authors:
- TNS OPINION AND SOCIAL, EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Directorate General Health and Consumers
- Publisher:
- European Commission. Directorate General Communication
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Brussels
This publication reports on the results of a survey on mental health and well-being across the 27 European Union Member States. The main themes addressed in this report are: the state of mental well-being; level of comfort at work (job security, job recognition, and whether jobs match skills); care and treatment (sources of professional help and antidepressant use); and perceptions of people with mental illness. Interviews were conducted with 26,800 EU citizens between February and March 2010. The results are presented for the total EU and by individual country, and compared to results from an earlier survey carried out between December 2005 and January 2006. The results show that about 1 in 7 EU citizens (15%) have sought help for a psychological or emotional problem in the past 12 months and 7% admit to taking antidepressants in the past 12 months. The mental health of an individual also pervades their attitudes and behaviours in the workplace, and the people with mental health problems are more likely to be absent from work and to feel undervalued in their job functions. The poorest in society, who are the most financially stretched or at the lower end of the social scale, are feeling the most negative and suffering the most from mental health problems.