{"id":8327,"date":"2020-02-26T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"poor-mental-health-is-the-silent-enemy-ravaging-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/26\/poor-mental-health-is-the-silent-enemy-ravaging-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Mental Health Is The Silent Enemy Ravaging Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\n2018 report by the World Health Organization echoed that one out of four\npersons suffers from a form of mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike\nphysical illness, mental illness has a vivid characteristic; it is challenging\nto pinpoint because a lot of people put on a brave face making it hardly\nnoticeable. In recent years, there have been extreme cases ranging from suicide\nand this has been a wakeup call to the employers to champion for the mental\nwell- being. Here are steps to effectively deal with mental health at the\nworkplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Train\nsenior management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisations\nneed to put in place training programmes for management to support persons\nliving with mental health and those affected by it. A major drawback is that\nmanagement tends to seek a one-size-fit-all solution without acknowledging the\nfact that there are systematic differences in the way people act, think and\nfeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every\nperson is different and there is the need to decode what makes each of your\nemployees unique and factor in how to manage that aspect of uniqueness. An\nexample is that some employees may be resilient when faced with challenges and\nothers are unable to wade through murky waters without any form of support and\nthis is something that needs to be taken into consideration. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/fitness\/Poor-mental-health-is-the-silent-enemy-ravaging-workplace\/4258372-5468900-6ke2q\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 report by the World Health Organization echoed that one out of four persons suffers from a form of mental illness. Unlike physical illness, mental illness has a vivid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}