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The City’s biggest mental health challenge? Long hours

If employers are serious about tackling poor mental health within financial services, they first need to address working hours

The City’s biggest mental health challenge? Long hours
Photo: Leonard Beard

When Richard Martin was an employment lawyer in the City, he remembers leaving to go to work one Monday morning and his daughter saying, “Goodbye Daddy, see you on Saturday”.

He was not travelling. The amount of work on his plate, the pressure of management responsibilities and commitments outside work just meant he never got home before her bedtime.

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