Mental Health | Is wellbeing your employer's or your own responsibility?

As Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, it’s difficult not to notice some of the key narratives cropping up in response.

This week, which brought attention to mental health and wellbeing, isn’t something that only exists in the corporate world. But because our jobs are where we spend most of our lives, and because of the wellbeing boom seen since the pandemic, speaking about mental health in the workplace is something we are used to by now.

However, some spectators have criticised the role of wellbeing and mental health in the corporate world, saying that an employee’s wellbeing is ultimately their own responsibility and not an employer’s.

This debate sheds light on how our corporate approach to wellbeing has changed since the pandemic. All at once, our personal and professional lives merged. And as a society, we were forced to support each other through something unprecedented.