The impact of recreational drug use on society and the workplace Frog Systems, in partnership with City, University of London and the Metropolitan Police, was delighted to co-host a half day conference at the RSA, London on Tuesday 26 March. Titled ‘Behind the Lines’ the conference, focused on the impact of recreational drug use on…
Time To Talk Day takes place in many workplaces across the UK at this time of the year. It’s billed as the nation’s biggest conversation about mental health. However, if all you do is pay lip service as it hits the calendar and talk for one day, there’s little value. So how do you turn…
The Lowry, one of the largest arts venues outside London, has chosen our Ashia wellbeing streaming service to help support the mental health and wellbeing of its staff and volunteers. In total 650 employees and volunteers will have access to Ashia which has 1000s of personal stories, expert videos, podcasts, films and digital resources plus…
As employers attempt to be more inclusive, they have tended to focus on gender and ethnicity as areas to improve on but there’s another important factor that is being overlooked. And that is age. When we can start work at the age of 16 and still be working into our 70s, how do you ensure…
Wellbeing streaming service provider adds offers to Ashia platform Frog Systems has further expanded its wellbeing support for employees by partnering with the Bupp membership programme to offer regular discounts to users of its streaming service Ashia. Employees whose companies subscribe to Ashia will receive money off everyday items and treats, without having to earn…
Historically company leaders have had to be the strongest person on the team, leading the way no matter how difficult the economic situation is, showing no vulnerability. This toxic approach dominated the corporate agenda, seeping down through the management layers to the rest of the workforce. But change is happening. In recent years senior leaders…
Ashia®, which means life and hope in Arabic, focuses on using the power of the lived experience to help users understand how others have got through difficult times, what can impact their mental health and wellbeing, and how they can take steps to improve it. As a full streaming service, Ashia contains 1000’s of videos,…
More than 6,000 people in the UK take their life every year. Three-quarters of those suicides are men. Suicide is the biggest killer of young adults under the age of 35 and of men aged between 50 and 54. And while there is a link between unemployment and suicide, the reality is that most people…
No matter where you look on social media these days, people are sharing their lived experience of poor mental health and other life challenges. However, when it comes to the workplace, there is still a reluctance to be as open about what we might be going through with our work colleagues and our employer for…
Do you take the wellbeing of your employees seriously or is it just a tick box exercise so you can include it in your annual report and say “job done”? If it’s the latter, then it might be time for a re-think because new research suggests that companies that are actively investing in employee wellbeing…