A survey published in January 2025 Mental Health Alert in the professional world. A challenge to be met as part of the new obligations of business in terms of health and quality of life at work.
- The mental health of employees of companies deteriorates.
- Mental health disorders are responsible for 50% of long -term sickness stops.
- Employees who benefit from prevention actions note an improvement in their mental health.
The discomfort of many employees is confirmed. A survey carried out in January 2025 by the Ipsos Institute for the Qualisocial Barometer “Mental health and QVT for 2025” emphasizes that an active person in four declares himself in poor mental health. Main victims of this “blues” at work, employees of administrative services and the professions in contact with the public and more particularly when it comes to young women working in part -time or single -parent households.
Mental health that causes 50% of long -term work stoppages
This observation joins other surveys already carried out on this subject of mental health at work and which indicated that the same proportion (one in four) of employees consider that their professional practice “Degrade their health” And that mental health problems currently represent 50% of long -term work stoppages.
At the origin of this discomfort linked to the professional universe, according to the Ipsos survey, we find as the first reason “Low confidence in the future” which increases the probability of a deterioration in mental health by 4.3%. “Employees must face an ignorance of what will happen and the fear of what they will become, it generates concern and stress”already underlined in October 2024 Olivier Bas, author of the book “La Has Been Company”in a podcast made for our site why doctor.
Prevention actions improve the quality of life at work
However, since the law of August 2021 called “occupational health law” which provides that employers are now required to monitor the state of health of their employees and to preserve their physical and mental health, many initiatives are carried out in companies with this objective. And it works … when suitable prevention plans are put in place. According to the Ipsos survey, 83% of people who have benefited from this type of action note an improvement in their well-being at work. But in this register, there is a very strong inequality according to organizations: almost 70% of employees would belong to professional structures in which these prevention actions are nonexistent or minimalist and barely one employee in four has access to a real plan Mental health prevention within his business.
The importance of communication within companies
“There is an emergency to carry out massive and immediate action to improve well-being at work”Alert Camy Puech, the founding president of Qualisocial, the organization specializing in the management of health risks in a professional environment which commissioned the survey carried out by Ipsos. The expectations of the employees interviewed in this survey indicate what should be the priorities in the actions to be carried out: to improve the feeling of physical and mental security at work, to work on the register of relations and the atmosphere at work and to reflect on the organization of work and tasks.
Expectations that join a point mentioned by Olivier Bas on the importance of communication within a company: “Communication is art and the way of doing things together, allowing everyone to stop and speak to be taken into account the operational difficulties on a daily basis. To find meaning, the employees wait for their work to have a concrete utility “.
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