How many employees within your organisation are currently suffering from mental ill-health? ONS figures (PDF format, 1.19MB) show that in any one year, one in four British adults experience at least one mental disorder and one in six experiences this at any given time - so even if you are not aware of it, it is likely someone you work with is dealing with some form of mental ill-health.
As such, the cost of mental ill-health in the workplace to employers is significant. Mental ill-health is the second largest cause of time lost due to sickness absence (PDF format, 420KB) in the UK with an estimated cost of £9 billion every year. But can anything be done to reduce these costs and can organisations manage the process to ensure less sickness absence?
IRS has designed a new survey to find out how employers are dealing with employees with mental ill-health: what support is in place for sufferers themselves and also for managers; what policies and procedures work and how best to manage those with ill-health to the benefit of the individual and the organisation itself.
We want to get a clear and accurate picture of the issues employers are facing and what policies and procedures are working in practice. Your help would be very much appreciated.
Please contact Noelle Murphy at noelle.murphy@irseclipse.co.uk or on 020 8652 2248 if you have any questions about this survey.
The mental ill-health in the workplace survey can be found here.
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Comments (1)
I completely agree, people dismiss mental ill-health issues because they don't get the headlines and it is not a visible problem but it is obviously one of the biggest challenges that HR departments face. I think it will be very interesting to see how employers are tackling the issue.
Posted by Faisal Alani | June 21, 2007 12:03 PM
Posted on June 21, 2007 12:03