As the New Year brought new challenges with another lockdown, our Andy Knorpel partnered with Alexander Lloyd to present the first in their new series of webinars.  Andy’s co-presenter was Wendy Ladd, an occupational health specialist practitioner with AWL Occupational Health, who has a particular interest in mental health.

Even before the most recent lockdown was announced, many employers had decided that their staff would be unlikely to return to the workplace for a number of months.  It now seems highly unlikely that office life will return to any kind of normality (whatever that may now be) before Easter.

Some staff have been happy to work from home, but others have greatly missed their previous interactions with colleagues.  Andy and Wendy looked at employee mental health and related issues arising out of the pandemic and lockdown.  They discussed what problems are likely to arise and focus on how employers should deal with them.