All eyes are on employers for an updated approach to mental wellness in the workplace. Plagued with personal and professional challenges that are affecting job performance and well-being, employees need access not only to mental healthcare benefits for a crisis, but the skills that can help them avoid one altogether.
Mental health struggles in the workplace have a negative impact not only on individual employees, but on businesses as well. Nearly one fifth of U.S. workers rate their mental health as fair to poor, according to Gallup research. The data also reports that employees with poor mental health miss four times more work, and say their job is more likely to hurt their mental well-being than to help it. The cost of this missed work is steep, with companies experiencing an annual loss of $47.6 billion in productivity.
