The more employers step into the area of supporting mental health, the more they open themselves up to claims that they are falling short
email rounding up the latestWhen I joined the workforce some 30 years ago, mental health issues were not something workers casually brought up in the office. While most managers were generally supportive, you never knew when you would run into someone who still saw depression and anxiety as moral failings and would hold them against you.
“If people are coming to the workplace with mental health issues, a progressive organisation will recognise that it will affect performance, and there’s a self-interest to support them,” says John Ryan, chief executive of Healthy Place to Work, a data analytics company that focuses on workplace health. “The biggest driver of sustainable productivity is the health of your organisation.”Help your employees get happier, healthier and more productive.
“People want the same things; Gen Z and millennials are more vocal about it,” says Cydney Roach, global chair for employee experience at Edelman. “Employees have this unprecedentedly high trust in their employers, but with that trust comes high expectations.”However, that is where future problems could lie.
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