Ashish Kothari and Barbara Jeffery discuss why companies should invest in prevention and wellness instead of waiting for mental health crises. Proactive programs boost productivity, help attract and retain talent, and move employees toward optimal health rather than just crisis management.
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This is not about deprioritizing the EAP systems, which I have seen people reporting on. It's not about that. If people are in crisis, you absolutely have to support them full stop. However, that's been the only focus. And actually, when you look at the business case, coming back to that, most of the business case is actually moving people to optimal health. It's actually not so much on moving people out of the crisis point. And I think that's where the opportunity lies. It's much more about how do you move to those proactive investments that avoid people getting into that zone so that you can unlock all of that wonderful productivity, attract employees, have a happy, healthy, thriving workforce, rather than just focusing on the people who really need critical support when we get there. Because you know what, when we do go there, we'll need that support. But it's about how do you support everybody.