Last year, nearly all HR professionals (94 percent) believed organizations could improve workplace mental health through the provision of benefits, according to SHRM’s Mental Health in America: A 2022 Workplace Report. But today, workers and experts are saying benefits and self-care perks alone don’t address the root causes of the burnout and exhaustion crisis in the workplace.
The just-released 2023 Mental Health at Work Report from Mind Share Partners, a nonprofit focusing on workplace mental health, reveals that workers want changes that go beyond traditional health benefits and self-care apps. In fact, 58 percent of surveyed workers rated a healthy, sustainable work culture as “very or extremely helpful” for their mental health, while only 35 percent of them rated self-care resources as “very or extremely helpful.”
