Workplace Mental Health Is a Leadership Issue

For years, companies treated employee mental health as peripheral rather than central to their core operations. It was something you offered employees as a benefit, pointed people toward as a resource or handed off to HR rather than owned at a leadership level.

That era is over.

Mental health now shapes how people lead, collaborate, solve problems, manage stress and stay in the workforce—in other words, it shapes the very things organizations depend on to perform. The most forward-thinking companies recognize this and are already acting on it: designating mental health days, investing in manager training so leaders can spot and respond to signs of struggle and embedding well-being alongside traditional performance metrics.

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