Breaking the silence: Why employers must rethink mental health in the workplace
Most employers already have people with mental health challenges on their team—they just don’t know it.
Australia’s workplace laws have become so focused on risk and liability that we often miss the opportunity to meet people where they are. Given that one in five adults will have a clinically significant mental health episode in their adult life, it’s statistically factual that most employers are in fact already employing people with mental health challenges. In fact, those people turn up to work, get the job done and may even be the backbone of the organisation.
The question is: why do employers think they are not employing people with mental health challenges? Let me pose this as a comparison — nearly one in 10 working adults lives with diabetes.
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