This YouTube interview (Expert Interview: Azizi Marshall 3) features a speaker discussing the importance of attending to employees' mental health as a business imperative. The speaker argues that denying mental-health days or unpaid leave increases stress and resentment, which reduces returning employees' productivity and work quality.
You have to take care of your people and in order to take care of your business. So if you're, if you're pushing things under the rug, if you're saying, no, you don't need a mental health day, or like you're saying your son is asking for that, and no, you have to take time off and you don't get paid for this, that adds a layer of stress that when that person comes back, they're not going to be as productive. They're actually going to harbor some resentment towards you and therefore not do their best work.
