Employee care | Developing your strategy to improve mental wellbeing at work

By Charlotte Hooper, Business Partnerships Manager, Business Accelerator, Generali Employee Benefits

Whether you’re a HR manager, Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) manager or Captive manager there’s no escaping the fact that mental health is a key factor in managing the health, productivity and profitability of any organisation.

Poor mental health across the workforce drives costs related to presenteeism, absenteeism, and health and disability claims. Since psychological wellbeing at work is a relatively new field of study, knowing where to begin and how to develop an effective mental health strategy is a key challenge. Generali Employee Benefits (GEB) is an expert in risk management and has partnered with leading providers of mental health services to help support global organisations. In this article we will address the issue of mental health at work and how we can support you to initiate a mental health strategy.

Why mental health matters in the workplace