工作场所的心理健康
Surgeon general’s focus on mental health in the workplace mirrors AHA 倡议
A healthier workplace makes for healthier people and communities, according to the U.S. 卫生局局长，他最近 具有里程碑意义的报告 on mental health and well-being in the workplace complements the 美国心脏协会’s 幸福更有效 倡议.
“When the mental health of workers suffers, 工作效率也是如此, 创造力和留存率,卫生局局长Dr. Vivek墨菲.
The report was prompted by the profound impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on work in America. 这些数字令人吃惊:
- 76%的U.S. 在2021年的一项调查中，工人们报告说 at least one symptom of a mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression, a 17% jump in only two years.
- 81% of workers said they will be looking for workplaces that support mental health 在未来.
The surgeon general presents a framework of five essentials to organizations that want to support the mental health and well-being of workers and includes evidence-based practices for doing so.
Here are the five essentials and how employers can promote them:
- 保护免受伤害: Ensure physical and psychological safety; allow adequate rest; provide mental health support and policies that promote diversity, 股本, 包容和无障碍.
- 联系和社区: Encourage a sense of inclusion and belonging; cultivate trusted relationships; promote collaboration and teamwork.
- 工作与生活的和谐: Provide more autonomy on how work is done; make schedules as flexible and predictable as possible; increase access to paid leave; respect boundaries between work and nonwork time.
- 工作中的重要事项: Pay a living wage; engage workers in decision-making; build a culture of gratitude and recognition; connect individual work to organizational mission.
- 成长机会: 提供培训, education and mentoring; create clear, equitable pathways for advancement; ensure relevant, 相互反馈.
The surgeon general champions workplaces as “engines for mental health and well-being,这是如何 幸福更好的计分卡 也对他们进行评估. 记分卡，开发与 首席执行官们, industry leaders and AHA volunteers, 帮助企业建立一个更健康的, more equitable and productive workforce through evidence-based evaluation and analysis.
Both efforts identify similar grounds for success: safety, security, 股本 and opportunity. 记分卡更进一步, generating data that pins down the substantive changes a business can make in programs and policies to transform its work environment.
