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Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost employee mental health (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago (5 children)

either because they hadn’t been offered them or because they didn’t take their company up on the offer

Are they talking about the "Get fired for depression" button on the company website that no one presses because entering in all your personal info is the oppsite of anonymous?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Worst misclick of your life hitting this thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Also: This survey is completely anonymous, please don't share this unique link though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ha. One time I started getting burned out at a job that was not what I expected and then got depressed, which made things even worse for me at work. Had never dealt with depression for and didn't recognize it. But I figured it out before too long and entered treatment. Went to my boss and said hey I know my performance hasnt been as great as we hoped, turns out I've been depressed and I'm now getting help, already feeling better. Told them, I'm going to take a couple weeks of the (many weeks) of vacation time I had just to try and refresh a bit. The week before I left one of the bosses asked to review an assignment and then proceeded to give me like five rounds of extensive notes and markup. She had never done so before and in fact had the opposite problem, of not giving enough feedback. Well, obviously I didn't have time to finish the assignment before I left because she had me changing things and then changing them back and then changing them again. I left the next day as scheduled and got on a plane. The day I returned to the office they fired me for not finishing the assignment, one month to the day I told them I was starting treating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Especially if your company operates their wellness programs through a third-party (as they should), you are protected by HIPAA and numerous other regulations. You should make use of the mental health resources available or you are throwing away money or your own mental health due to paranoia. I use my company's EAP all the time for counseling (autism, depression, anxiety, etc) and participate in the other wellness BS for the small cash rewards I get for doing so. I have not had an issue for well over half a decade, because the company would get maaaajorly sued for prying, and is actually incapable of doing so because these services are 3rd party.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

American business are well known for following the laws, especially around privacy And discrimination . /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Just enter wrong information.

It is what I do whenever a website asks for that info when they clearly do not need it.