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Quebec workers more reluctant to discuss workplace mental health
Fewer Quebec workers have experienced a mental health-related illness than Canadian workers as a whole, and are less comfortable sharing their mental health issue with colleagues, according to a Conference Board of Canada survey. According to the survey, 29 per cent of Quebec workers have experienced a mental health-related illness, compared to 32 per cent for Canada. But while 28 per cent of Canadians are comfortable sharing their mental health issue with colleagues, in Quebec the figure is only 21 per cent. The survey, called Building Mentally Healthy Workplaces: Perspectives of Canadian Workers and Front-Line Managers, looked at what organizations can do to create conditions in which employees experiencing mental health issues can work more productively. The survey included 233 respondents from Quebec. When it comes to workplace information about mental health, 18 per cent of Quebec respondents said they received information in the past year, compared to 22 per cent nationally.
