After two years of COVID-19 lockdown, South Africa is gradually getting back to normalcy. Most businesses have reopened their doors and are now allowing employees to shift from remote working back to offices. But the challenge for business now is how to guard against a second pandemic of mental illness. According to the latest Mental State of the World report, more than a third or 35% of South African employees experienced high levels of stress-related physical ill-health such as headaches, nausea, sleeping and eating problems during lockdown.
For more on this story, we are now joined via Zoom by Professor Renata Schoeman, Head of the MBA in Healthcare Leadership at Stellenbosch Business School.
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