Employers need to boost mental health care in employee benefit packages as workers return to the office, Ontario's social workers say
Dr. Deepy Sur of the Ontario Association of Social Workers says the increase is needed to help employees access regular continuing counselling during a stressful, tumultuous time where some workers are heading back to their physical workplaces after up to two whole years away.
The “echo pandemic” is a term mental health professionals coined for the expected increase in mental health issues associated with the isolation, workplace burnout, feelings of loss and changes in parenting brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our research has told us that $1,500 allows people to think about developing access over time,” Sur said.Eighty-six per cent of respondents characterized mental health professionals as an essential service.
“Many employers don’t know and have not thought about mental health care as part of an employee benefits package.”
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