Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Smart organizations monitor their employees’ psychological health.

Your work enables you to pay for your financial responsibilities while providing you with direction, structure and a sense of achievement. However, work also can generate a variety of stressful conditions.

That is why employees’ well-being and mental health should be critical concerns for all sizes and types of organizations everywhere. Despite the obvious benefits of having a job, the workplace can exert extraordinary pressure on employees and their leaders.

Dysfunctional environments beset with ineffective communication, managerial incompetence and unrealistic workloads can weigh heavily on employees – particularly if they are already dealing with stressful situations outside the office.

Well-being is highly personalized, but both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Mind, a mental health organization, define it in general as the ability to take pleasure in life and to deal successfully with its challenges. Each person’s physical and mental well-being are inextricably linked. Individuals with health problems can experience harmful mental side effects, while...