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When the workplace takes mental health seriously

Once a footnote in the benefits package, wellbeing is becoming a question of how work itself is organised.

By Rational Times Editorial · 1 min read

For years, workplace mental health was an app, a seminar, a line in the handbook. The conversation has moved, slowly, toward a harder question: what if the problem is not the worker but the work?

Always-on culture, unclear expectations, and the erosion of rest are not individual failings to be meditated away. They are conditions, and conditions can be changed.

The organisations taking this seriously are not those with the best perks but those willing to examine how their own practices affect the people who do the work. That is harder, and more honest.

Wellbeing is not a benefit. It is a property of a workplace designed to sustain the people in it. The companies that learn this will keep the people the others lose.

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