Employee mental health remains one of the hottest topics in employee benefits. Yet when new programs are implemented, they can have a low utilization rate, making HR leaders wonder if it was worth the effort and the money in the first place.Mental health is an extremely complicated and nuanced subject.Conditions like anxiety and depression, already common in American adults, are expected to spike during this pandemic.
While there are opinions that it’s our work that is making us sick (overeating, underexercising and drug abuse that lead to chronic diseases are often provoked by long-term stress, including workplace stress) it’s not that simple, and the subject matter is much more complex.
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