Unlocking the Mental Health Secrets of Companies Insights for HR and Management

14 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, Marc Haine and a co‑speaker discuss how hiring external mental‑health professionals can be aligned with a company’s goals while preserving confidentiality, enabling open dialogue. They emphasize the importance of aggregating data from Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), wellness committees, and internal advocates to gauge the organization’s overall mental‑well‑being. An anecdote from consulting illustrates that roughly 10 % of employees use psychological services they might otherwise have missed, highlighting hidden demand and the value of systematic data collection for HR and management decision‑making.

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So, this is where hiring somebody like yourself would really kind of be in alignment with what they're trying to achieve while keeping some of the data points confidential so that you can have really open and honest discussions.
Right, because most companies, if they're a smaller company, maybe they have an HR department. But most companies have EAP programs. They have wellness committees. They have advocates, all those things. If you were to aggregate all that data, Marc, that's important because that's giving you a pulse of what your mental well-being of your organization is going through. So like when I was in the consulting world, we knew about 10% of people attended services that would have otherwise not attended work because they had psychological services.