The challenges facing manufacturers seem to increase with each passing day, and the results of a recent FP Flash Survey demonstrate that workplace mental health can be added to that list. It’s not just that supply chain disruptions, rising costs for everything from energy to toilet paper, worker shortages, and increased turnover have put tremendous pressure on manufacturers in every industry, this pressure is also creating increasing amounts of stress on your employees. What can manufacturing employers take away from this survey, and what can you do about this increasingly challenging problem?
Results of Survey Paint a Challenging Picture
According to the latest FP Flash Survey, employers are seeing increased requests for mental health accommodations requests and are also seeing the impacts of mental health concerns negatively impacting their employee retention efforts. Some of the more interesting results as they relate to the manufacturing industry:
- 41% of manufacturing employers say that mental health challenges have negatively impacted employee retention efforts in the past two years.
- 10% of manufacturers have seen an increase in legal demands and claims related to mental health and wellbeing since the pandemic started.
- 28% of manufacturers have received a work-from-home request based on a claim of anxiety or other mental health issue in the past two years.
- 31% of manufacturing employers have seen an increase in requests for reasonable accommodation relating to...
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