Mental Health at Work – Part 4

Performant Mental Health, The Series

Barclays gets it. EY understands. Facebook is making headway. What these companies and others understand is that mental health is vital to the overall corporate health and sustainability of an organizations and its employees. They realize investments in mental health are good for business, too.¹

We’re confident these companies also grok the sobering statistics:

• In the US nearly one quarter of the workforce experiences a mental health or substance use problem each year.²
• In Canada mental health issues account for 30 to 40 percent of disability claims, “with the prevalence of claims for mental health diagnoses climbing by 0.5 to 1 percent every year.”³
• In the UK an estimated 12.7% of all sick days can be attributed to mental health conditions.⁴
• In one survey “many people reported they would rather tell employers they committed a petty crime and served time in jail, than admit to having been in a psychiatric hospital.”⁵
• Depression and anxiety impact the global economy at an estimated cost of USD $1 trillion per year in lost productivity.⁶

And in the current lockdown conditions brought about by a global response to COVID-19, companies are realizing now more…