There is a transformation taking place right across the UK’s world of work - and it’s creating more lone workers than ever before.
The reasons are various: for some employees, work that has always been done from an office is now often undertaken from home. For others, stretched resources or increased demand might mean that work previously shared with a team or partner must now be managed without that extra support.
Then there are those who need to travel away from their usual place of work to complete tasks in unfamiliar surroundings where they have less control, such as nurses and carers who must go where they are most needed, including people’s homes.
These new lone workers join the estimated 6 million already employed across the UK. It’s a culture shift unlike anything most organisations have seen before, and it’s helping to shine a light on the challenges that lone workers face; challenges that are amplified by a crisis, but that always exist - particularly when it comes to mental health.
