Wellbeing | Managing personal issues that impact performance

We often say in the handbook that what you do in your own time is your business. And in most cases, that’s absolutely right. But the reality is, people don’t clock in as completely separate versions of themselves.

Financial worries, mental health struggles, relationship problems, alcohol misuse, online behaviour or difficult personal circumstances can, and do, begin to show up at work.

That doesn’t mean every personal issue becomes an employer’s responsibility. But there does come a point where what happens outside work starts to affect someone’s role, their colleagues, your workplace or your organisation’s reputation. And that’s when employers can’t ignore it any longer.

When does it become an employer’s concern?

It really comes down to the impact it has.