Mental Health

Mental Health

Worth Reading – Your ‘Culture’ is a Lie Until You Fund Mental Health
ByMike McBride June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

The culture you describe would be working toward solutions to the epidemic of burnout and anxiety. Especially the stress that results from financial instability, caregiving responsibilities, and discrimination, to name a few. A good workplace culture addresses these issues by providing a living wage, flexibility, and equal opportunities, among other benefits related to quality mental health care.

An app doesn’t show that you care, and if you don’t care, you have no culture.

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Linked – Microsoft’s layoff : How corporate downsizing is sparking a global mental health epidemic
ByMike McBride May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

We also need to talk once again about the mental health of both those who were let go and those who are left behind. The shock of having your life turned upside down on the whim of an organization’s managers is overwhelming. Anyone who has been part of a layoff can tell you that. I went through it, and I know plenty of others who have also done so. It’s a traumatic experience.

I’ve also had the experience of watching people I worked closely with get let go more than once as part of a downsizing. That is also traumatic, and the impact goes much further than being sad the day it happens. You’re also likely adjusting schedules and workloads, taking on more work and stress for the same pay, and feeling guilty because you are at least still getting paid while others are not.

So, if you know someone affected by these layoffs, please reach out. Keep in touch with them as best you can and help keep them connected to a community within their industry.

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Linked – Survey Finds Employee Mental Health Suffering From ‘Political Turmoil’ and ‘Economic Uncertainty’
ByMike McBride March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Pay people enough money so that they can live and stop the mass layoffs every time the stock price dips a little bit. Much of the financial stress people face is because they don’t make enough money to pay for things like childcare and are constantly worried about losing their jobs. If you want to help your employees struggling with stress, anxiety, and burnout, there’s a good place to start.

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Linked – Why Most Workplace Mental Health Programs Fail
ByMike McBride March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

If your employees don’t feel safe, all the policies and resources in the world won’t matter. Having good mental health benefits is great, but making the environment safe for employees who take advantage of them is better.

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Linked – New NAMI Poll Finds Employees Reluctant to Discuss Their Mental Health at Work
ByMike McBride March 3, 2025March 2, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Those are just the reasons why many with supportive workplaces would be reluctant to talk about mental health at work. We also know that many workplaces are not supportive at all. In the era of the current administration pushing hard against DEI policies, workplace accommodations, and the mass layoffs happening all across the economy, why would we bring attention to ourselves and our mental health? Too many employers are looking for a reason to fire employees, and a mental health struggle might be one.

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Linked – What You Need to Know About the Misinformation Effect
ByMike McBride February 5, 2025February 4, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Because if you read enough misinformation, you can’t help but be influenced by it. The people who put out all this false information know it, too.

The only way to combat it is to ignore it. We must leave spaces where it occurs, cut ourselves off from people and sites promoting it, and never share anything we haven’t vetted with trustworthy fact-checkers. We need zero tolerance for ourselves when it comes to false information online.

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