If organisations want to ensure that employees are productive working from home, the value of investing in measures to support psychological wellbeing is very clear. Major firms, for instance professional services group PwC, have been sufficiently impressed to make remote working a permanent option for their staff. In fact, the mental health scores for the most productive workers in our survey were twice as high as the least productive. Clearly if organisations want to ensure that employees are productive working from home, the value of investing in measures to support psychological wellbeing is very clear. Getting this wrong may risk compromising the mental health of employees – for example, if prolonged remote working increases isolation or increases work intensity.

Source: News 24 May 07, 2021 15:22 UTC