Linked – Are employees getting enough mental health support in 2024?

So there is some improvement:

According to insurance company Aflac, 54% of employees are now confident that employers care at least moderately about their mental health, which is an improvement over last year when the number was at 48%. In addition, 47% of employees believe their organizations have improved how they address mental health needs in the last year.

But, given the push to get workers back in the office, I can’t help but wonder if this improvement will continue:

According to Aflac, fully in-person employees were less likely to say that their organization had improved on the mental health front: Just 40% of on-site workers reported improvement compared with 48% of remote and 58% of hybrid employees.

It turns out that giving employees some control over their time and flexibility helps them feel more like you’re considering their mental health. Taking that away will likely have the opposite effect.

However, what I want to talk about is the 46% of employees who are not “confident that employers care at least moderately about their mental health.”

That’s a lot of employees at risk of leaving. After all, why continue to work for an employer who doesn’t appear to care about you? Consider the wording of that survey; they only asked if you feel confident that your employer moderately cares. Not that they care deeply. Not that you feel important to them, just whether there is evidence that you moderately care about their mental health. How much effort does it take to show that you care just a little? Yet almost half of employees don’t see it from their employers.

That’s a shame. The improvement is nice, but there’s a long way to go on this issue.

https://www.benefitnews.com/news/are-employees-getting-enough-mental-health-support-in-2024

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