Rachel Suff

Stepping up to support people with long COVID

2021-07-08T14:12:00Z

Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser (Employment Relations), CIPD. We’re now 18 months into the health pandemic and the world’s scientific and medical communities continue to grapple with the COVID-19 disease as it ...(read more)

We need to make sure employee health and wellbeing remains a business priority

2020-12-08T10:55:00Z

Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD outlines how you can help us explore the state of employee wellbeing in the UK after an unprecedented year.We need your help! Help us ensure employee health and wellbeing remains a bu...(read more)

We all need to unite against bullying

2020-11-16T10:26:00Z

By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPDHow organisations can prevent bullying and negative conflict occurring at work, and how to resolve it when it does.The theme of this year’s Anti-...(read more)

Pandemic pressures increase risk of stress

2020-11-02T10:45:00Z

Stress Awareness Week marks an opportunity to take stock of the added pressures many are facing due to COVID-19, and what we can do to manage them. CIPD Policy Adviser, Rachel Suff explores this topic.The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the wh...(read more)

Redundancy: Compliance and compassion should go hand in hand

2020-10-09T17:40:00Z

With the Government’s Furlough scheme ending this month, fear about large-scale job losses loom large. A third (33%) of employers intended to make redundancies over the last financial quarter, a...(read more)

Employers’ concern for people’s mental health during COVID-19 soars

2020-05-18T09:35:00Z

Almost nine in ten (88%) employers are concerned about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic could have on employees’ mental health, according to a survey of over 1,000 employers carried out in April by YouGov on behalf of the CIPD. A quarter (25%) ...(read more)

People’s physical and mental health needs protecting during COVID-19 pandemic

2020-04-03T11:53:00Z

It’s still hard to absorb the exceptional situation that the country – indeed the world – is facing in the context of COVID-19. As the infection and death rate from the pandemic continues its sharp upwards trajectory in the UK,...(read more)

Conflict at work – make managers part of the solution, not the problem

2020-01-21T00:01:00Z

Most of us spend a large portion of our waking hours at work, and so the quality of the working environment has a significant impact on our well-being. A supportive culture with positive relationships can greatly enhance our experience of work; confl...(read more)

Sign up here for the CIPD/Simplyhealth Health and well-being survey

2019-11-11T10:51:00Z

The CIPD annual Health and Well-being at Work survey, in partnership with Simplyhealth, is now open! We are grateful to every individual who takes the time to complete this short online survey and contributes to our work on this important agenda. You...(read more)

World Menopause Day: we need to maintain momentum

2019-10-18T01:05:00Z

By Rachel Suff and Claire McCartney, advisers at the CIPD The menopause is an urgent workplace issue that all employers should be taking seriously. Half the workforce is female, which means half the workforce will go through the menopause at som...(read more)

World Mental Health Day 2019: help prevent suicide at work

2019-10-08T13:25:00Z

The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day is on suicide prevention. Suicide can be an uncomfortable issue to address – but it is a vital that we raise awareness about it in the workplace. According to the World Health Organization,...(read more)

Are we making headway on mental health?

2019-05-13T08:00:00Z

How effective are organisations in creating mentally healthy workplaces for people? Mental health awareness week is an ideal time to stand back and take the temperature. How much progress has been made, and where do we need to focus attention to impr...(read more)

How can we tackle work-related stress?

2019-04-02T10:35:00Z

National Stress Awareness Month is a good opportunity for organisations and people professionals to stand back and think about what action could make the most difference to reducing people’s stress at work. The increasing prevalence of work-rel...(read more)

Check out Mind’s guide to implementing the mental health core standards

2019-03-19T08:51:00Z

Employers have made a lot of progress over the past few years in supporting people’s mental health. But the important Stevenson-Farmer ‘Thriving at Work’ review of mental health and employers published in autumn 2017 still showed &l...(read more)

Tell us about your experience of mental health at work

2018-07-05T09:13:25Z

We still have a long way to go before most people can talk about mental health in the same way as physical health issues. So it’s really important that we learn from people’s experiences of mental health at work, so that we can buil...(read more)