Wellbeing | Posting about mental health on LinkedIn impacts employability - what needs to change?

Discourse around mental health since the pandemic has been prolific. Now more than ever, people are willing to talk about once taboo illnesses.

The new-found remote nature of work has meant that the professional world, that had once been clearly separated from an employee’s personal life, is now quite literally within people’s private lives.

All the many challenges that this had once posed was quickly tackled by the British public. One obvious but often overlooked positive outcome of the pandemic and the introduction of remote work, was the forced consequence of talking about mental health at work.

For the first time in a long time, employers were forced to reference mental health because there was such a fluctuation and decline in the mental wellbeing of workforces. Yet, new research shows that employers are less likely to hire candidates if they see they speak about mental health on social media. So, does the taboo around mental health still exist?