July 18, 2017
CEO’s Response to Mental Health Time-Off Request Draws Praise
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Depression and mental health disorders rank in the top three most expensive and most common issues among employees, costing employers more than $100 billion in lost productivity annually, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Despite an estimated one in five adults living with a diagnosed mental health condition, at least half of employers in the United States are not doing enough to consider worker health, according to a Randstad report.
On June 30, one CEO’s response to an employee’s request for time off due to mental health reasons was shared thousands of time on social media platforms.
Madalyn Parker, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based web developer at Olark Live Chat, sent the following e-mail to CEO Ben Congleton:
“I’m taking today and tomorrow to focus on my mental health. Hopefully I’ll be back next week refreshed and back to 100%.”
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