Employers tend to better accommodate employees having a physical illness or disability than workers with mental-health illnesses, based on a survey that found 1 in 5 employees was coping with employers depression.
Twenty-two per cent of employees surveyed for that poll released Tuesday said these were either clinically depressed (14 percent) or diagnosed themselves as having depression (eight percent).
The survey of more than 6,600 employees and managers was conducted by Ispos-Reid for Great-West Life Centre for Mental Health at work.
Fewer respondents said these were under treatment for depression, over a survey done 5 years earlier:
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