Survey: Employers should play active role in employees' mental health
More than three in four U.S. employees (76 percent) have dealt with issues negatively affecting their mental health, according to new survey results from the American Heart Association (AHA). A whopping 96 percent of the workers surveyed said that mental health is as important as physical health.
The online survey commissioned by the AHA and conducted by The Harris Poll also revealed that 42 percent of employees say they have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder by a healthcare professional – which indicates a need for mental health services in the workplace, according to Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky, one of the executives on the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable. “With so many of our employees managing mental health conditions, it is our obligation to provide effective intervention and prioritize treating mental health on the same level as physical health,” he said.