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The message from firms should be that they will change their toxic working environments so as to avoid work-related mental health issues in the first place.

Think about it: if employees were always getting physically injured by dangerous equipment in a workplace, would the solution be:

a) do nothing or very little to change the work environment, but boast that you’re getting plenty of first aiders on hand ready to fix up the physical injuries;

b) change the work environment so people don’t get injured in the first place.

Obviously solution b) is the answer when it comes to physical injuries. Mental health should be no different. Yet big firms keep banging on about solution a) rather than tackling the cause of the mental health issues: bad work environments. The cynic in me thinks they don’t want to change, because it will reduce profits.

Look at the recent scandal with MW Solicitors and the abominable working conditions. They had mental-health support according to people who worked there. But it is meaningless. The solution is to eliminate the cause of the problems.

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