All posts tagged "wellbeing"

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  Remote working: caring for the health of public sector employees

  Remote working has traditionally been an under-utilised option for many public sector workers, something that was turned on its head when COVID-19 hit. Many administrative public sector services are now

  • Posted July 13, 2020
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  Lord O’Donnell challenges lockdown decision-making and reversion to unilateralism

  On purely medical grounds, lockdowns are effective in suppressing COVID-19. But Gus O’Donnell, the UK’s former Cabinet secretary, tells Matt Ross that national decision-makers should take a wider view of

  • Posted April 29, 2020
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  Know your team: using data to drive staff engagement

  Disconnected systems and inconsistent information make it difficult for HR teams to keep pace with growth and change. But sophisticated tools that pool data into a single platform can offer

  • Posted February 28, 2020
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  UK PM’s chief adviser ‘getting in the way’ of good government, says union chief

  The behaviour of UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser is harming departments’ ability to deliver the government’s objectives, FDA general secretary Dave Penman has told Global Government Forum. “What’s been

  • Posted February 21, 2020
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  From bitter experience: Lord O’Donnell on the next recession

  The world economy is in trouble, former UK Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell told the 2019 Global Government Summit, and governments must become more effective – repairing their economies, and reshaping

  • Posted August 14, 2019
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  World’s first ‘wellbeing budget’ broadens focus from GDP

  The New Zealand government announced details of their much-anticipated ’wellbeing budget’ last week, shifting the focus away from economic growth to include quality of life and public wellbeing. Rather than

  • Posted June 6, 2019
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  New Zealand plans to build wellbeing into budget decisions

  The public sector needs to focus more strongly on improving the current and future health of people and the environment, the government of New Zealand has said. The country’s Treasury

  • Posted October 3, 2018
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  New research boosts crusade to embed happiness in public policy

  New research suggests that governments could have more success in improving people’s lives if they prioritised improving mental health over traditional top goals such as boosting economic growth. The research,

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  Canadian departmental chiefs handed mental health brief

  The Canadian government has launched a new strategy to tackle workplace mental health problems, giving departmental chiefs responsibility for addressing a major cause of long-term sick leave. The workplace mental

  • Posted October 6, 2016
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  ‘Leadership is about courage,’ says senior official who speaks out about battle with depression

  A senior civil servant whose team won an innovation award for its work in supporting workplace wellbeing has spoken of her struggle with depression and is urging other leaders to show

  • Posted June 2, 2016
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