> it could just push companies to weed out depressed people from their hiring pool I’m not saying this is the best metric but they would find that sort of trea

> it could just push companies to weed out depressed people from their hiring pool I’m not saying this is the best metric but they would find that sort of treatment to be highly ineffective. Lifetime prevalence of depression and the depression at any given time are different things; it would be like trying to weed out all future cases of flu based on symptoms at hire time. Either way it wouldn’t make a dent on flu caused by the work environment itself.