10/12/2017

Guiding Employees Toward Mental Health Practitioners

More employers are considering benefits to help employees navigate the mental health care system

Your company is aware of the impact mental health has on the workplace. It trains managers, uses EAPs and communicates relevant information on the company’s intranet. But there’s just one problem: employees still aren’t well.

Today, Oct. 10, is World Mental Health Day, and the theme this year is mental health in the workplace. My colleagues and I have written about mental health before (for example, my Frasier blog series, which is very popular among a few co-workers and my sisters). I love writing about this topic, and it’s wildly important nowadays. There’s so much more awareness on this issue than before, and there’s still ways to go.

Recently health care company ConsumerMedical released a survey on employees’ health care concerns and needs. The results were based on a survey of 1,000 employees at U.S. companies with 500 or more employees, and I found these results valuable and thought-provoking.

Please click here to read the complete article from Workforce.