Wellbeing | Six tips for managing your workers' mental health during lockdown

Tiger Recruitment recently hosted a webinar with three mental health and wellbeing specialists: Jo Yarker from Affinity Health at Work, Business Psychologist Julie Osborn and Ruth Cooper-Dickson from Champs Consulting.

We brought them together to discuss how employers should best manage and support their workers’ mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are their six top tips to help employers in the coming weeks and months. 

1. Managers must look after their own mental health

Considering the unprecedented nature of the current situation, you may be struggling with personal stresses alongside work demands and supporting your staff. So, first and foremost, you need to look after your own mental health. Ruth explains, “managers are humans [and so] employees need to give them a little bit of slack as well”.