Workplace Benefits
Beyond supporting your team with an innovative mental health solution, text counselling can help:
- Support your employees to thrive
- Identify departments that require support
- Improve workplace satisfaction
- Reduce absenteeism, presenteeism and compensation claims
- Satisfy DOLE mandates to offer mental health programs in workplaces
- Position your company as a proactive & innovative organisation
- Enable proactive intervention & support (Comprehensive data provided)
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“Every dollar spent on effective workplace mental health actions may generate $2.30 in benefits to an organisation.”
(Source: https://www.headsup.org.au/)
Mental illness is the third most common disability in the Philippines.
(Source: Martinez, A.B., Co, M., Lau, J. et al. Filipino help-seeking for mental health problems and associated barriers and facilitators: a systematic review. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 55, 1397–1413 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01937-2)
Mental ill-health impact in the workplace:
Mental health issues are affecting people in all industries, the estimated annual cost of ill-mental health across absenteeism, loss of productivity and turnover Php 174,551,750
Approx 38,250 days are lost per year due to work-related stress, anxiety & depression.
Around 6 million Filipinos are estimated to live with depression and/or anxiety, making the Philippines the country with the third highest rate of mental health problems in the Western Pacific Region.
Source: Martinez, A.B., Co, M., Lau, J. et al. Filipino help-seeking for mental health problems and associated barriers and facilitators: a systematic review. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 55, 1397–1413 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01937-2
Republic of the Philippines – Department of Labor and Employment
DOLE mandates mental health program in workplaces
Underscoring the importance of promoting workers’ mental health, the labor department has mandated the adoption and implementation of mental health policies and programs in workplaces.
In Department Order No. 208, signed on February 11, 2020, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III provided the guidelines to employers and workers for the effective implementation of mental health policies and programs in accordance with RA11036 or the Mental Health Act.
“The directive hopes to raise further awareness, prevent stigma and discrimination among Filipino workers in as far as mental health conditions are concerned and provide support to workers with mental health issues for them to gain access to medical health services,” Bello said.
Components of a mental health program shall include advocacy, information, education, training as well as promotion and enhancement of workers’ well-being; non-discriminatory policies and practices; confidentiality of information; disclosure of medical or mental condition; work accommodation and work arrangement; treatment, rehabilitation and referral system; benefits and compensation, among others.
For more information visit www.dole.gov.ph
Workplace benefits of text-based counselling
Text-based support has helped customers with the following:
- 72% Relieved stresses
- 44% Improved focus
- 30% Reduced the amount of leave taken for mental wellbeing concerns
- 23% Helped concentration at work
- 62% Alleviated personal concerns that would impact on work
