Blog: Employees' mental health and returning to the workplace

As lockdown eases and society moves towards establishing some kind of new normality, we've seen employers undertaking surveys of employees to better understand their views on coming back to the office. Lesley Allen, partner at law firm Clyde & Co, asks have employers gained a richer understanding of employee mental health and what does that mean for their duty of care for those employees?

According to newspaper headlines, Britons may be suffering from ‘coronaphobia’ – a fear of leaving the safety of their homes. On that basis, one might think the return to the workplace would provoke