Catherine Charron, in special collaboration with Lesaffaires
According to Canadians, mental health problems are not a sufficient reason to miss work, and their employers have difficulty assessing the extent of this phenomenon. reports that conference plank from Canada in a comprehensive report.
Through a study whose results were published on August 9, 2023, the organization wants to highlight the factors that increase cases of absenteeism and presenteeism due to concerns such as depression or anxiety. However, it is difficult to truly assess them because workers seem to minimize the impact of their mental health problems on their performance.
“Our results suggest that employees’ responses to absences for psychological reasons systematically present reliability problems due to fear of stigmatization or losing their job,” says the paper, which runs to around forty pages.
Of the 977 respondents, 63% said they did what was expected of them despite their discomfort. Note that nearly 40% of respondents say that prejudice against mental health persists at least somewhat in their workplace, while more than 30% were unsure of their answer.
Although 16.7% of respondents say they work less due to mental health problems since the pandemic, 66.4% have not changed their presence at work over the last three years despite the more empathetic discourse.
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