Employee support | What does good support for working carers look like?

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

Amongst one of the many changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic was the huge increase in the number of unpaid working carers in the UK; 2.8 million extra workers juggling work and unpaid care. This brings the estimated number of unpaid carers who are also in paid work to over 7 million across the UK: around one in four workers, according to Carers UK.

And while the massive increase in homeworking helped some with this juggling act, it made it all the more stressful for others, says Carers UK, who found from their research that people felt they had no respite from their caring role and struggled to concentrate on work.

In fact, ‘separating work from home’ represents one of the top two things working carers worry about most right now, alongside ‘loved one’s health declining’. These results came from a recent social poll that Generali UK ran alongside our webinar on how to better support working carers, in partnership with LifeWorks and MorganAsh.*