{"id":125053,"date":"2019-10-14T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=125053"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:13:29","slug":"3-ways-to-improve-mental-wellbeing-in-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/3-ways-to-improve-mental-wellbeing-in-pr\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ways to improve mental wellbeing in PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last week, to coincide with World Mental Health Day, the PRCA and Opinium published research into mental health in our industry. The study found that 89% of PR and comms practitioners have struggled with their mental wellbeing and that overall levels of wellbeing in PR are lower than the UK average.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to contribute to better mental health in the workplace, from buddy systems and mental health first aiders to no-evening-email policies and encouraging digital switch offs.<\/p>\n<p>These generally focus on two of the biggest problem areas: not being able to open up, which ultimately leads to more pressure and stress, and the stress of workload creating a bad work\/life balance.<\/p>\n<p>The PRCA and Opinium research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flipsnack.com\/PRCAUK\/opening-the-conversation-mental-wellbeing-in-pr\/full-view.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opening the Conversation: Mental Wellbeing in Public Relations<\/a>, helps to define these main areas with three takeaways for employers to help their employees thrive:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recognising the impact of workload on mental health and introducing effective workload management techniques<\/li>\n<li>Offer mental wellbeing initiatives that enhance mental wellbeing and encourage their usage<\/li>\n<li>Embrace mental wellbeing throughout the whole organisation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All three foster company cultures that promote positive mental wellbeing and help to create a space where employees and colleagues feel comfortable to talk about their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that more needs to be done to help improve mental health in the industry and give it a bigger focus. Studies like this help to shine a light on issues and provide practical advice but ultimately, it\u2019s up to the agencies and in-house teams to adopt these for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What workplaces can do to embrace mental wellbeing and help their employees to thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":125054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272,7238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}