The Pandemic Effect

The current health crisis is affecting employees’ mental health in different ways.  It represents a unique threat, and we must recognize the pandemic that will quickly follow it—that of mental and behavioral illness – and implement the steps needed to mitigate it.  The pandemic has fundamentally changed social contracts not only between governments and their citizens, but also between businesses and their employees, customers and business partners.

Pace of Change

In the last decade there has been an enormous increase in the pace of change in the commercial world for SME’s. Organisations continue to face unprecedented pressures and demands from increasing competition, heavier workloads and longer hours, all of which must be dealt with at a personal level. It is inevitable that these continuous pressures will cause problems both for every organisation and many individuals.

Your Most Important Asset

Your workforce are a highly valuable resource, representing significant investment in recruitment and training. Stress, staff turnover, reductions in productivity, sickness absence, low morale and staff conflict all have a direct impact on your bottom line. Pressure and stress are not uncommon within most people’s daily working lives, but if not managed effectively can have a significant and negative impact on productivity and morale. A consistent demand for quality, performance and results is placing increased pressure on employees to remain effective at work whilst maintaining a quality home life. The current health crisis is affecting employees’ mental health in different ways.  Whatever struggles your employees are facing, RISE provides real solutions to their very real issues. In a world which expects everything yesterday, time is a valuable commodity. To successfully manage a healthy work/life balance individuals need immediate access to impartial, accurate information and life management tools.

What support do you in place for Your Most Valuable Asset ?

RISE – The Solution

RISE is a support programme to assist in identifying and resolving employee concerns, which affect, or may affect, performance. Such employee concerns typically include, but are not limited to:

Personal matters – health, relationship, family, financial, emotional, legal, anxiety, alcohol, drugs and other related issues.

Work matters – work demands, fairness at work, working relationships, harassment and bullying, personal and interpersonal skills, work/life balance, stress and other related issues.

RISE provides counselling and other forms of assistance, advice and information to employees.

RISE Is a healthy investment in your people and your business helping your employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. The world is changing at pace and with it the needs of employers and employees. Some real-life examples:

• Anyone who needs a private GP consultation by phone or video
• Employee with stress
• Office worker down on the luck
• Overwhelmed single parent
• Worker battling an illness
• Graduate struggling financially
• Marriage very break up
• Bereavement
• General anxiety

RISE should be viewed as an SME core employee benefit for all employers to help fulfil their “duty of care” towards their employees.

By offering employees immediate access to RISE, you can reduce staff absence and stress, whilst increasing motivation and wellbeing. In short, RISE represents an extremely comprehensive, cost-effective solution to many of the people problems SME employers face today.

If you have between 2 and 1,000 employees, RISE will provide your employees with immediate access to the right non-judgemental support.