Mental health conditions affect more than 200 million workdays each year, yet mental health remains a taboo subject. About 60 percent of employees have never spoken to anyone at work about their mental health status.
Mental health is becoming the next frontier of diversity and inclusion, and employees want their companies to address it.
Source: Harvard Business Review, October 7, 2011. Link. At a minimum, companies need solid mental health benefits, and those that do have them must learn how to communicate them clearly including, their confidential nature.
INSIGHTS: There’s sound information to think about in this article. It lends clarity to what employees seek and need. Our industry is already addressing some of the issues.
Note the study shows the most commonly desired workplace resources for mental health are:
- a more open and accepting culture
- training
- clearer information about where to go or who to ask for support