Yesterday saw the 30th anniversary of World Mental Health Day – a global event recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the auspices of the World Federation for Mental Health.
One arena where the inherent pressures and strains create both unique mental health challenges and fuel pre-existing ones is undoubtedly the workplace.
This may go some way to explaining why mental health-related absence was found to be the most common cause of long-term sickness absence in U.K. workplaces according to a 2019 report from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The report identified stress, depression and anxiety to be responsible for 44% of work-related ill health and 54% of working days lost in 2018 and 2019.
Given this significant impact, employers and corporate leaders simply don’t possess the luxury of solely focusing on organizational mental health on just one day if the year or even attending to it intermittently.
Rather, the post-pandemic mental health crisis currently ablaze across western society is something that organizations need to pay full and consistent attention to.
There also exists a need to understand the complexities of the interplay of mental health and the workplace and appreciate that, as such, there are few simple one-size-fits-all modular solutions but rather, approaches that require diligent crafting and tailoring to the many different drivers of mental health difficulties in working age adults.
These drivers can be...
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