Financial wellbeing | Poor payroll processes are impacting workers' mental health

Working in retail, hospitality or healthcare is stressful. These jobs demand a lot from their employees. Whether it's long shifts on a hospital ward, dealing with angry customers all day in a department store or working late into the night behind a bar, staff are often overworked and underpaid.

The same can also be said for emergency workers and teachers. It’s just a fact of life that sometimes your job can be stressful, but the added pressures of the pandemic has left lots of people in these industries feeling burnout, anxious and stressed. All these negative emotions combine to have a detrimental effect on workers’ mental health.

Working on zero hours contracts, having to be furloughed or working too much overtime, are just some of the reasons employees' mental health is suffering. But there’s one totally avoidable reason why staff are feeling anxious and that’s because many of them aren’t getting paid on time.

Lot’s of companies' managed payroll processes aren’t up to standard and the uncertainty around getting paid on time is negatively affecting a lot of workers’ mental health.