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Article

14 Nov 2013

Author:
Dennis Stevenson, in Financial Times (UK)

Business leaders must take a stand on mental health

[W]e only talk about workplace stress when there is a high-profile case of mental ill-health is a problem…We must work to make it acceptable – to reduce the number of people who feel they must hide, freeing them to understand their illness and seek treatment. And this is why business leaders must take the lead. Many mentally unwell people refuse either to accept treatment or to discuss their illness for fear of impairing their careers. If chief executives make clear that they expect colleagues with such problems to come forward, that it will not harm their prospects and that their illness is like any other, it will help…But removing stigma goes only so far. We need better treatment. The clinical outlook for sufferers is less than satisfactory…[Also refers to Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Swisscom, Zurich]