Wellbeing | Why the mental health of working parents & their children needs employer support

By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits

It’s a sad indictment of modern life and childhood that a third of employees worry about their children’s mental health while at work¹. This is not only an issue for children and their parents, it also has a knock-on effect on employers too. Presenteeism is ever rising. Four-fifths (83%) of employers said in response to a recent CIPD survey² that they’d observed presenteeism in their organisation. And a quarter (25%) said the problem had got worse since the previous year. So how can employers help empower working parents to be in a better place to support both themselves and their children?