World Mental Health Day 2024: Workplace health

"Mutually beneficial partnership"

Jaskeet Briah
clock • 5 min read

On World Mental Health Day, protection and health experts have called for employers to ensure their health and wellbeing propositions are up to scratch, while emphasising the importance of employees being proactive in taking care of their own health.

This year's theme - workplace mental health – focuses on the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace for the benefit of people, organisations, and communities. So far in 2024, anxiety, depression and stress have accounted for more than three quarters (77%) of mental health appointments for Unum's health and wellbeing app, Help@hand. The impact of poor mental health is also significant on a national level, Unum said. Of the people who were economically inactive due to long-term sickness in 2023, 27% were out of work due to their mental health. At the re...

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