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Towards Sustainable Workplace Mental Health: Early Intervention and Support

20 points by samaysharma 3y ago

nonrandomstring 3y ago
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- datadrivenangel 3y ago
  Better to do something than stop doing something!
- anotherhue 3y ago
  Fitter, happier, more productive.
mistrial9 3y ago
fifty percent of managers rule by fear
tamimio 3y ago
Most middle managers are the prime example of Dunning–Kruger effect and simply are kept in their position to do C-level dirty work, C level only care about maximizing profits, no one cares about employees mental health, the work from home was a clear example to everyone, HR isn’t your friend, hell, even the tax system is rigged to benefit the corporates while milking the employees dry, their income is taxed, what left of it is paid to items that are also taxed, to save for a house that you will pay taxes to keep it for the rest of your life, modern days jobs are a covert slavery.
P_I_Staker 3y ago
This is really dystopian: >A major challenge for employers is that employees often remain unaware of their mental health issues until they reach a crisis point, resulting in limited utilization of corporate well-being benefits. This has become a trope, but the reality is these systems work terribly, even one on one with a doctor, which doesn't have to same conflicts. We need a healthier environment. What are the advantages of trying to involve the very people that are causing your distress? (although this is somewhat true with the medical system too, but that's a problem for another day). I'm not sure what "utilization of corporate well being benefits" means; a coupon for a therapy portal? Even the doctors and mental health experts can't really help. > This research addresses this challenge by presenting a groundbreaking stress detection algorithm... Leveraging automated chatbot technology, the algorithm objectively measures mental health levels by analyzing chat conversations Very skeptical of this working based on modern chat-bot technology, but the idea itself is really dark. The people emotionally abusing you will detect when you've had too much, so you can go back to the shop to get work done. It's already way too late, and beside the point. I thought about managing mental health with a previous employer, and it was absurd to think about how that conversation would go: "Do you know where the stress is coming from" "You're trying to fire me for having a disability" "Oh, well that's essential to business" Which is the point. Systems are in place specifically to make the problem worse and induce someone to either quit (see statistic about 60%+ of attrition due to mental health), or too stop complaining, and "fit in". So you leave, or you are bent into shape, until you become overstressed. It's by design. The point is to get rid of the problem. These systems are designed in opposition to our goals on this issue.
IlPeach 3y ago
This reads a lot like a potential load of money to be shoveled into "AI" once again. As someone else said, overall healthier environments are the best solution to the problem.

20 points by samaysharma 3y ago

nonrandomstring 3y ago

[flagged]

datadrivenangel 3y ago
Better to do something than stop doing something!
anotherhue 3y ago
Fitter, happier, more productive.

mistrial9 3y ago

fifty percent of managers rule by fear

tamimio 3y ago

Most middle managers are the prime example of Dunning–Kruger effect and simply are kept in their position to do C-level dirty work, C level only care about maximizing profits, no one cares about employees mental health, the work from home was a clear example to everyone, HR isn’t your friend, hell, even the tax system is rigged to benefit the corporates while milking the employees dry, their income is taxed, what left of it is paid to items that are also taxed, to save for a house that you will pay taxes to keep it for the rest of your life, modern days jobs are a covert slavery.

P_I_Staker 3y ago

This is really dystopian: >A major challenge for employers is that employees often remain unaware of their mental health issues until they reach a crisis point, resulting in limited utilization of corporate well-being benefits. This has become a trope, but the reality is these systems work terribly, even one on one with a doctor, which doesn't have to same conflicts. We need a healthier environment. What are the advantages of trying to involve the very people that are causing your distress? (although this is somewhat true with the medical system too, but that's a problem for another day). I'm not sure what "utilization of corporate well being benefits" means; a coupon for a therapy portal? Even the doctors and mental health experts can't really help. > This research addresses this challenge by presenting a groundbreaking stress detection algorithm... Leveraging automated chatbot technology, the algorithm objectively measures mental health levels by analyzing chat conversations Very skeptical of this working based on modern chat-bot technology, but the idea itself is really dark. The people emotionally abusing you will detect when you've had too much, so you can go back to the shop to get work done. It's already way too late, and beside the point. I thought about managing mental health with a previous employer, and it was absurd to think about how that conversation would go: "Do you know where the stress is coming from" "You're trying to fire me for having a disability" "Oh, well that's essential to business" Which is the point. Systems are in place specifically to make the problem worse and induce someone to either quit (see statistic about 60%+ of attrition due to mental health), or too stop complaining, and "fit in". So you leave, or you are bent into shape, until you become overstressed. It's by design. The point is to get rid of the problem. These systems are designed in opposition to our goals on this issue.

IlPeach 3y ago

This reads a lot like a potential load of money to be shoveled into "AI" once again. As someone else said, overall healthier environments are the best solution to the problem.