Employee Benefit News June 5, 2019
While employers have made strides in improving workplace mental health, many have not yet found a way to expand these initiatives to diverse workforces.
That’s according to Peter Varnum, lead of global mental health and non-communicable diseases at the World Economic Forum. Though many companies have made progress in bringing mental health programs to their employees, many global employers with different offices and diverse groups of workers haven’t yet found a way to make the programs work successfully.
“My own hypothesis is culture is certainly influenced from the top down, [from the] global CEO,” he said Monday on a webinar hosted by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. “[But] what happens in a Hong Kong office may be very...