Why is mental health an asset in the workplace?
Why is mental health an asset in the workplace?
Many employers lack systems to recognise and address mental health at work. The workplace mental health and wellbeing survey suggests that many employers lack systems to recognise and address mental health at work, especially in relation to absence management and making adjustments. Value mental health and wellbeing as core business assets.
How does mental health add value to the workplace?
Our new report, produced with employee benefits specialists Unum, shows that the value added by people with mental health problems in the workforce is greater than the costs arising. Improving and protecting mental health secures that value and should help reduce cost.
What is the value of mental health in the UK?
Improving and protecting mental health secures that value and should help reduce cost. The report, which includes research by the Mental Health Foundation, Oxford Economics and Unum, has five key findings. People living with mental health problems contributed an estimated £226 billion gross value added (12.1%) to UK GDP.
Is it good to disclose your mental health in the workplace?
Disclosure can be a positive experience, but discrimination and self-stigma remain big issues. A majority of respondents to the workplace mental health and wellbeing survey who disclosed a mental health problem to an employer described it as an overall positive experience, and were more aware of the support available to them than those who had not.
Many employers lack systems to recognise and address mental health at work. The workplace mental health and wellbeing survey suggests that many employers lack systems to recognise and address mental health at work, especially in relation to absence management and making adjustments. Value mental health and wellbeing as core business assets.
Our new report, produced with employee benefits specialists Unum, shows that the value added by people with mental health problems in the workforce is greater than the costs arising. Improving and protecting mental health secures that value and should help reduce cost.
Improving and protecting mental health secures that value and should help reduce cost. The report, which includes research by the Mental Health Foundation, Oxford Economics and Unum, has five key findings. People living with mental health problems contributed an estimated £226 billion gross value added (12.1%) to UK GDP.
What are mental health issues in the workplace?
A majority of respondents to the workplace mental health and wellbeing survey who disclosed a mental health problem to an employer described it as an overall positive experience, and were more aware of the support available to them than those who had not.