Creating a workplace environment where people can be themselves and can access the support they need can prevent stress from escalating into more serious mental health issues. This will help your workers to be happier, healthier, and in the long term, more productive for your company.
As well as a legal duty to adjust for workers with long-term mental health illness, businesses have a moral duty to ensure that as many people as possible stay in work despite mental health issues.
The following tactics can help:
• Offering flexible working
• Creating quiet places at work
• Mental health counselling
• Promoting mental well-being
• Educating employees to break down any stigma of mental health
What have you seen work well to support mental health in the workplace? Reply below.
