Workplace wellbeing: how to have a truly guilt-free holiday this summer

Think back to childhood summers. They might have been spent running barefoot after the ice cream van, riding your bike for hours on end, or visiting grandparents by the coast. In other words: care-free.

Fast-forward to now and it’s a very different story. Sure, the majority of us don’t have?six weeks to take away from work. But doesn’t that make it all the more important to enjoy the holiday time we?do?have? And encouraging our workforce to do so?

Yes, but it’s not what us Brits are doing.

The struggle to ‘switch off’ is affecting the UK workforce, and it’s putting?employee?wellbeing?and business performance at risk. A?2018 study conducted by Glassdoor?found that only 40 per cent of the UK workforce took their full allocated holiday. Nearly a quarter (some 23 per cent) of the respondents said they checked their work email while away, and 15 per cent reported working while on their holiday for fear of falling behind.

But will this year be different? Read the full article?here.

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