Workplace mental health and well-being has been a focus of much media attention during the pandemic.  The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) tracked how 237 firms or charities across the Midlands (including Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire) experienced and dealt with mental health and well-being issues through the duration of that pandemic. They interviewed business leaders or CEOs in each firm or charity in each year during the pandemic.

In 2020, interviews were completed immediately prior to the first UK lock-down in March which provided a pre-Covid baseline.

In 2021 (between January and April) the survey was repeated during the 3rd national lockdown in England, a period when many employees were working from home and many more were on furlough.

In 2022 the same firms or charities were re-contacted between January and April, a period after the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in England (July 2021) and the end of the furlough scheme in September 2021.

The Insight Report and its conclusions can be seen here: ¬¬X (enterpriseresearch.ac.uk)