Mental health: Pressure to return to the office could be making employees more anxious

Jun 9, 2021

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56% of respondents in a recent study reported that their organisation hadn’t asked for their opinions about return-to-work policies and procedures. Image: Unsplash/ Steve Ding

Sunita Sah

KPMG Professor of Management Studies, University of Cambridge

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