‘The hidden business cost of mental illness’
December 8th, 2009Stew Friedman, writing in the Harvard Business Review, says mental illness is often not taken seriously or treated as a legitimate disease by businesses, the health care system, or by society. As a consequence, he says, the business sector faces significant cost in lost productivity because employees feel they must carry this heavy weight of responsibility and worry by themselves.
It’s estimated that more than 26 percent of American adults have a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year, says Friedman. He urges companies to improve attitudes and language, and to change the corporate culture to be more supportive of people with mental illness.
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