Cotton On Group's Peter Johnson talks team morale during lockdown By Imogen Bailey | 16 June 2021 And it's not just the monetary loss retailers have to manage during a lockdown. Mental health and team morale are also impacted. According to Beyond Blue, in the 2019-2020 financial year, the organisation supported 273,845 people via the Support Service. Meanwhile, overall contacts to its support services increased 42% from the previous year. So, how does Cotton On Group CEO Peter Johnson keep team morale up in a global team of 20,000, when different countries, or even different states, are experiencing different levels of COVID restrictions? "We spend a lot of time talking to our leaders," Johnson told