Being a purposeful company also means putting people first. How can your organisation become a place where employees thrive, not just survive and get on with work? “Prevention is better than cure” In this interview, Simply Business general counsel Joanne Theodoulou together with Bupa group legal director Janet McCarthy talk about “looking after ourselves and each other”. The discussion starts by acknowledging that we are not used to thinking about our mental health in quite the same way we do about our physical health, and that most of us can’t recognise the signs until they manifest in a physical way. The visual concept of Joanne’s “stress bucket”, where the capacity of the bucket is your capacity to deal with stress, and therefore limited is particularly interesting. The key take-away? We need to start paying attention to what is going into that bucket and how to control it.