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Just Talk-Campaign APPEAL

Hundreds of thousands of families in Britain have been devastated by years of heartbreak and eventual suicide, desperately seeking help for mental ill-health difficulties.

Please will you make a donation to help them?

CUSTODIANS OF WELL-BEING

Dear reader

With mental health issues nearing the top of the national agenda right now, imagine saying to someone in a wheelchair, just get up and walk. Sadly, this is reality for many sufferers. Imagine the person with severe depression who could just as easily drown in a puddle. A conversation could interrupt suicidal thoughts, or else make a huge difference to someone enduring this sort of distress.

The Campaign riffs on the existing ExploringU counselling formula, but it also proves there is plenty more juice left in the tank. It represents the company’s ambitions over the next 10 years.

Now we will be able to increase the number of people we help tenfold.

…How you can help!

Please will you make a gift of £20 today to help individuals/families who are enduring seasonal disorder (SAD) in the harsh autumn months?

Meet your new Chief Happiness Officer

Your donations will help individuals’ general Well-Being or increase organisations productivity. Workplace powered by Human Experience, a survey of over 7,300 employees from 12 different countries across the world; undertaken in consultation with 40 global corporates, show people who are happy and fulfilled at work make productive and engaged employees.

Nearly nine out of ten respondents were enthusiastic about having a chief happiness officer at work; someone to act as a custodian of their wellbeing. The UK’s workforce is more or less aligned with this global average – 85 per cent of you think having a CHO would be a good idea.

The importance of happiness in the workplace is one that has taken root recently in some of the world’s biggest corporations. Google already has a chief happiness officer, and Virgin, with staff consultations on work spaces, is a pioneer in putting people at the centre of office design. It seems clear that many other businesses are getting ready to follow suit.

So why the seemingly sudden focus on workplace happiness, after decades in which it was a secondary issue? Managers are increasingly aware that they get the best from people who are inspired by their environment. Happy, fulfilled employees are productive and engaged employees. At the same time, a new generation of employees are more demanding – searching for organisations whose ethos they believe in, and work environments in which they feel at home.

Empowered workers are often involved in designing their own physical surroundings and have access to a range of environments.

FIND YOUR HAPPY PLACE

Fulfilled workers know their needs are catered for through the design of their workplace.

Most people who have been in the workplace for a couple of decades or more will have experience of the traditional environment – rigid structures, which employees had to slot themselves into. This approach is rightly being overhauled making our offices more human, but there is still a long way to go. Being more human means becoming more complex. And complexity is part of the survival blueprint for the future.

We urge more Well-Being, please.