Take it from a psychologist: Here’s what you need in your mental healthcare plans
How can employers ensure they are offering quality mental healthcare? A therapist weighs in.
Behavioral Health
Benefits Think Strategies to reduce employees’ return-to-work stress
By keeping employees’ mental health top of mind, HR leaders can create a new workplace culture that is better for all.
Scott Domann
Calm
Older employees are struggling to maintain their mental health as COVID persists
Stress, anxiety and feelings of negativity are on the rise as employees grapple with the uncertainties of the pandemic.
How to help employees manage fresh stress as COVID spikes
Scott Domann, Calm’s chief people officer, encourages leaders to stay optimistic — but realistic.
Mental health under growing strain in COVID’s second summer
“Poor mental health days” have become one of the costliest forms of sickness for the economy.
How to prevent employee stress from spiraling into harassment
Remote work has blurred the communication lines for employees — and many of them are crossing those lines out of stress and anger.
Your mental health benefits should cover your employees’ kids, too
Behind every stressed out child is a stressed out parent.
This company is making summer vacation mandatory
Employees left 768 million days of PTO on the table in 2020 because of guilt over missing work and fear their workload would be unmanageable when they returned.
How AI can ensure every employees’ mental health needs are met
EAPs and wellness programs are not enough for the population of employees who need more than mindfulness apps to manage their mental health.
Benefits Think Mental health issues can no longer be taboo at work
After a year marked by a public health crisis, an economic downturn and racial injustice, employers are grappling with difficult questions.
Wendi Safstrom
SHRM Foundation
Employees are struggling with pandemic PTSD
As employers ramp up return-to-work plans, employees are still struggling with the trauma of the last year-and-a-half.
Workers will need support from employers to deal with COVID mental health fallout
The pandemic's damage maybe felt in the workplace long after the disease has receded.
COVID mental health is a disaster for Gen Z and millennial employees
Mental health is in a free-fall for younger employees. An expert from The Standard shares what employers must do to help their workforce through these challenges.
Benefits Think Disruption is a danger to workforce well-being and productivity
Brought about by an extended period of emotional exhaustion and chronic disappointment, pandemic fatigue represents a real threat to both the physical and mental health of our workforce and, ultimately, to our economy.
Dr. Brad Smith
meQuilibrium
Returning to work doesn’t have to be stressful. Here’s how employers can help
Achieving a pre-pandemic office culture may not be possible, but a new normal shouldn’t be daunting.
Employees don’t want more money, they want less stress
Nearly two-thirds of employees have left a job or want to leave their current job for the sake of their mental well-being.
After battling anxiety and depression, this founder is helping his employees improve their own mental health
Alex Iwanchuk helped launch CBD brand Feals to help consumers achieve wellness. But as an employer, he’s looking for ways to support his team’s mental health, too.
If you want Gen Z, you’ll have to work for them
After bearing the brunt of layoffs last year, younger workers are now a covetable asset in a competitive talent market. And they want to know what a company stands for — and stands behind.
Managers are getting personal when it comes to mental health
It may be beneficial for managers to share their own mental health challenges to get closer to their teams, says Gail Golden, an organizational psychologist.
Employee mental health plummets with return to work plans on the horizon
Stress, anxiety and depression levels are ramping back up after slight improvements earlier in the year.
