{"id":7547,"date":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/mental-health-related-absence-disability-still-major-challenges\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:00:00","slug":"mental-health-related-absence-disability-still-major-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/mental-health-related-absence-disability-still-major-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental-health related absence, disability still major challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Canadian employers intend to prioritize the improvement of workplace mental health over the next three years to help manage ballooning costs, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson. Most of the\u00a0150\u00a0survey respondents indicated\u00a0that mental-health issues generate\u00a0major costs to their organization, largely due to disability, absenteeism, loss of productivity and costs &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/mental-health-related-absence-disability-still-major-challenges-for-canadian-employers-105035?utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=EmailMarketing\">Mental-health related absence, disability still major challenges for Canadian employers: survey<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The majority of Canadian employers intend to prioritize the improvement of workplace mental health over the next three years to help manage ballooning costs, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson. Most of the 150 survey respondents indicated that mental-health issues generate major costs to their organization, largely due to disability, absenteeism, loss of productivity and costs &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of Canadian employers intend to prioritize the improvement of workplace mental health over the next three years to help manage ballooning costs, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson. Most of the\u00a0150\u00a0survey respondents indicated\u00a0that mental-health issues generate\u00a0major costs to their organization, largely due to disability, absenteeism, loss of productivity and costs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mental-health-care-web.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,42,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-mental_health","9":"tag-wellbeing","10":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}