How ILX Group is raising awareness and supporting employees

In the first two blogs, we outlined how the global pandemic has had a major impact on mental health; how loneliness – the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 – can lead to mental health issues and other anxieties; and shone a spotlight on a charity we support who offers counselling.

In this last blog, we are discussing how we at ILX Group have been supporting our employees and what we plan on doing next.

Firstly, we understand the difficulties facing both organisations and individuals, especially when we and most of our customers all had to quickly pivot to working from home. Working from home brought great benefits but also provided new challenges, including: feelings of disconnect, the stress of balancing professional life with our personal lives and the general stress and anxiety that came with trying to do our jobs during a pandemic and not in the office.

But it was not just us. Research conducted by The Royal Society for Public Health found in 2021 that although 45% of people found working from home was good for their mental health, the speed in which it happened because of COVID-19 meant 67% felt less connected to colleagues.

Furthermore, 46% of respondents got less exercise than before, 39% developed musculoskeletal problems and 37% suffered disturbed sleep.

Also, 56% people found they could not switch off when working from home and only 34% of respondents felt supported at work by their employer.

So, what did we do at ILX Group?

Ran a series of webinars at the beginning of the pandemic to support our employees and customers

When the pandemic started and the world went into lockdown, we wanted to do our bit to support our employees and customers. So, we ran a series of webinars to help people cope with the huge changes we were all going through, particularly in our working lives. Delivered by business psychologist and expert trainer, Nick Winston, we ran sessions on ‘Resilience and surviving change’, ‘Leading virtual teams’, ‘