Counselling and therapy getting employees back to work under Covid

Research from Towergate Health & Protection has highlighted the increasing use of counselling and therapy services to help employees return to work during the pandemic. Figures from one of Towergate's employee assistance programme (EAP) providers showed a total of 9,000 engagements between February 2020 to January this year. Of those employees absent from work prior to starting therapy, 38% had returned to work within eight weeks of starting therapy, based on one session per week. Calls to counselling services were dominated by mental health issues (43%), followed by legal (21%) and w...