The Need for Companies to Promote Mental Health in the Workplace

  Detecting and addressing the psychological discomfort of employees should be an objective in any organization. For example, the psychosocial risks derived from a worker experiencing stress, anxiety, or depression associated with mobbing have a high cost, both in human and economic terms. It can cause unhappiness, sick leave, increased risk of accidents, and low productivity, among others. For this reason, it’s time that companies addressed the issue of mental health in the workplace, However, it seems that we’re still leaving the psychological aspect in respect of work in the background. Production matters more than human needs, as does reaching…