Aon and TELUS Health release joint study on workplace mental health in Asia

• 82 % of workers surveyed have reasonable to excessive threat of growing psychological well being points
• 54 % consider their profession choices could be restricted if their employer knew they’d a psychological sickness

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 September 2023 – Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a number one world skilled companies agency, in collaboration with world healthcare chief TELUS Well being, has launched the inaugural Aon TELUS Well being Asia Psychological Well being Index report, which explores office psychological well being and the impression on productiveness throughout 12 international locations in Asia. The report revealed that 82 % of staff in Asia have a excessive (35 %) to reasonable (47 %) psychological well being threat, which highlights a rising concern of office wellbeing in Asia.

The insights from the report intention to enhance understanding of the psychological well being threat of workers and assist companies make higher choices to handle worker psychological well being and improve workforce resilience. The robust probability of staff growing a psychological subject – 30 % of those that reported being high-risk and seven % of these with reasonable threat – means there may be elevated threat of decrease productiveness and monetary threat for organisations.

Stress, nervousness and burnout driving office productiveness down

Key findings on office productiveness confirmed that 45 % of respondents throughout the area report that their psychological well being is negatively impacting their work whereas stress, nervousness and burnout are on the rise. Extra findings embody:

• Fifty-one % of workers reported feeling extra delicate to emphasize this yr in comparison with final yr.
• Forty-five % of them consider their colleagues are exhibiting extra indicators of stress this yr.
• Additional, thirty three % of staff are at the moment discovering it troublesome to focus on their work.
• Forty-seven % reported ending their day feeling mentally and/or bodily exhausted.

Asian staff managing rising work, house and social pressures, stigma surrounding psychological well being and the impression of COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the deterioration of psychological well being. Public and self-stigma is an awesome drawback for workplaces and society throughout Asia. The report revealed that 54 % of workers consider their profession choices could be restricted if their employer knew they’d a psychological well being subject, whereas 49 % mentioned they’d fear that family and friends would deal with them in a different way and 49 % reported they’d really feel negatively about themselves.

“Organisations that don’t implement assist constructions or select to dismiss the impression of psychological well being of their office will realise there’s a vital price in doing nothing,” mentioned Tim Dwyer, chief govt officer, Well being Options, Asia Pacific, Aon. “Supporting workers’ wellbeing is important for organisations to take care of excessive ranges of engagement and productiveness to ship measurable return on funding. Lack of assist and the stigma connected to psychological well being points are key limitations on why worker psychological well being points stay unresolved. Organisations should subsequently handle these points head-on whereas growing an built-in technique knowledgeable by information and insights.”

Difficulties in accessing psychological well being assist

Well timed intervention and assist may assist keep away from the implications of poor psychological well being like absenteeism, or loss in productiveness and expertise attrition. Nevertheless, a number of elements make it troublesome for workers to achieve out for assist. The report revealed that 43 % of respondents cited price because the primary barrier to acquiring psychological well being assist. Lack of understanding and data of the place to get assist additionally ranked excessive amongst respondents, with practically one third not figuring out what kind of care they want or the place to go. This group additionally rated stigma of their high 4 responses about limitations to getting assist and reported that they had been involved about what others would consider them for having a psychological well being subject.

“The prevalence of overwhelming and crippling ranges of stress throughout the office merely can’t go ignored; far too many individuals in Asia are coping with elevated stress, nervousness, isolation and melancholy, which has a direct correlation to office productiveness,” mentioned Jamie MacLennan, managing director of APAC, TELUS Well being. “Many companies are nonetheless not taking the psychological well being of their workers severely and when not addressed and supported will result in decreased productiveness and elevated absenteeism and presenteeism. Addressing the psychological well being and wellbeing of workers is not a ‘good to have’ – moderately, it’s a industrial crucial.”

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In regards to the survey

Aon and TELUS Well being performed an internet survey of 13,000 folks residing throughout China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam in November 2022. Greater than 1,000 people responded to the survey from every location. All respondents are at the moment employed or had been employed throughout the prior six months. Contributors had been chosen to be consultant of age, gender and trade, and had been requested to contemplate the prior two weeks when answering every query.

The event of the TELUS Psychological Well being Index started in 2017, with validation and benchmarking persevering with by 2019. In April 2020, the month-to-month Index was launched in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US, providing a transparent and close to real-time measure of the psychological well being and wellbeing of the working inhabitants. In 2022, the TELUS Psychological Well being Index was expanded to Singapore and Europe, and in 2023 to New Zealand and Asia.

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TELUS Well being is a worldwide healthcare chief serving folks in additional than 160 international locations delivering each digital innovation and scientific companies to enhance complete bodily, psychological, and monetary well being and wellness throughout the complete spectrum of major and preventive care. By leveraging the facility of know-how to ship related options and companies each in-person and nearly, TELUS Well being is bettering entry to care and revolutionizing the circulate of data whereas facilitating collaboration, effectivity, and productiveness for physicians, pharmacists, well being authorities, allied healthcare professionals, insurers, employers, and other people globally, progressing its imaginative and prescient of reworking healthcare and empowering folks to reside more healthy lives.

Our scientific crew consists of famend and passionate well being professionals world wide delivering best-in-class people-centric care to tons of of 1000’s of employers, professionals, and their households.

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