Employers urged to make Blue Monday a wellbeing support opportunity

Blue Monday this year will fall on Monday, January 15th. Rather than thinking of the gloom and doom it represents Blue Monday can be turned into an opportunity to offer wellbeing support to employees. Towergate Employee Benefits Health & Protection has realised the potential of the day and is urging employers to turn this negative into something positive…

What exactly is Blue Monday?

Deemed the most depressing day of the year, the timing of Blue Monday is based on a formula using factors such as debt levels, weather conditions, time since Christmas, broken new year’s resolutions and low motivational levels.

Towergate Health & Protection says, however, that employers would do well to use the day as an opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of supporting mental health and wellbeing, and to put solutions in place.

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