Mental Health Benefits: A Must-Have Resource for Employees
Forty-two percent of employees with access to mental health benefits say they’re more likely to stay at their job than if they didn’t have them, according to Mercer’s 2021 Health on Demand report.
That’s an impressive number for providing mental health benefits.
The reality employers must come to terms with is that mental health support at work is no longer “a perk”. It’s a must-have resource for employees.
The survey of 14,000 employees across 13 countries, also found that 44% of employees, who didn’t have access to mental health benefits, felt unsupported by their employers. And employees who feel unsupported are often unmotivated and don’t feel attachments.
“Mental health benefits are just as important as physical health benefits,” says Dr. Sherry Benton, founder of digital behavioral health platform TAO Connect, a UF startup and UF Innovate | Accelerate at The Hub graduate. “And for employers, they’re important for a few reasons. First, providing them shows employees you care about and have compassion for them. Second, it actually benefits the company.”
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