Advisory Board February 14, 2020
As the number of young workers with mental health conditions increases, employers are facing a growing number of requests for mental health-related disability accommodations, and they’re not always prepared to handle them, Lauren Weber reports for the Wall Street Journal.
More young employees have mental health conditions
Adults between the ages of 18 and 25 have the highest prevalence of serious mental health conditions across age groups in the workforce, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Among that age group, the prevalence of serious mental health conditions is 7.5%, compared with 5.6% among adults ages 25 to 49 and 2.7% among adults over 50, the data shows.
Many of those individuals are starting the shift...
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