Vinciane de Pape - The ROI of Mental Health: Building Happier, More Profitable Companies

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The ROI of Mental Health
Building Happier, More Proﬁtable Companies

Vinciane de Pape
Director of Learning & Culture
Versett
vinciane@versett.com
@vincianedepape

Performance management
Learning and development
Employee engagement
Employee recognition
Diversity & Inclusion

It's my job to make sure my team is equipped with the
tools and resources to do the highest quality work of
their careers, and the support and psychological
safety to bring their best selves to work every day.

Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Obsessive tendencies
History of eating disorders

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Investing in our people
isn't just the right thing to
do; it's also what is most
profitable.

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Viewing long hours as a proxy for results comes not
only at a human cost but at a financial cost as well.

Let’s look at the numbers

2IN 5 211
MILLION
500
THOUSAND
€136
BILLION
40
PERCENT

Our lionizing of toxic work habits has created a
culture that significantly increases the risk of work
burnout and exacerbates existing mental illnesses.

We not only have the opportunity—
we have the responsibility to change this.

How do we change this?

Create open vacation policies01

Offer flexible work arrangements02

Honour a 40-hour work week03

Working 11+ hours a day had doubled the risk of depression
Midlife cognitive loss after working 55+ hours per week
Poorer performance in vocabulary, reasoning, information
processing, problem solving, creativity, and reaction times
Predictor for earlier dementia and death
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Honour a 40-hour work week03
Respect boundaries04

#2 most important factor for considering a new job was
“greater work-life balance and better personal well-being”
53% of respondents said work-life balance was “very
important” to them
Female employees were more likely to assign high
importance to this job attribute
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1. Gallup State of the American Workplace Report (2016). Retrieved from https://www.gallup.com/workplace/238085/state-american-workplace-report-2017.aspx @vincianedepape #DevOpsDaysGeneva

Reconsider open-plan office layouts05

Women more likely to feel like they are being watched
Feel more judged on their appearances
Increased pressure to look “done up”
Reported experiencing greater sexual harassment
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1. Hirst, Alison and Schwabenland, Christina (2018). Doing gender in the 'new ofﬁce'. Gender, Work and Organization. @vincianedepape #DevOpsDaysGeneva

Educate (and learn) to develop empathy06

Mental health is not the absence of mental illness.
Mental illness does not preclude mental health.

Educate (and learn) to develop empathy06
Lead by example07

We build digital products.
Nobodies lives are at stake.
Work can wait.

Set healthy boundaries01

Practice self-care02

Ask for help03

“Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.”
– MY VERY WISE THERAPIST

Be the one to reach out first.

Ask for help03
Start the conversation04

What does this look like?

Improved attitudes towards mental health and decreased
stigma around mental illness
Improved employee engagement
Increased productivity and creativity
Increased sense of overall wellbeing
Improved levels of trust in the workplace
Increased satisfaction with leadership
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Workplace Mental Health in Canada: Findings from a Pan-Canadian Survey (2016). Retrieved from https://cmha.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Workplace-
Mental-Health-in-Canada_CMHA_Feb2016-1.pdf

Improved interpersonal relationships at work
Increased sense of commitment and loyalty to the company
Decreased inefﬁciency and errors
Decreased rate of absenteeism
Decrease in employee turnover
Decrease in lost revenue due to missed work
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Workplace Mental Health in Canada: Findings from a Pan-Canadian Survey (2016). Retrieved from https://cmha.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Workplace-
Mental-Health-in-Canada_CMHA_Feb2016-1.pdf

In other words, happier, more productive teams
and happier, more profitable companies.

“I can’t be an idealist if these
organizations exist in reality.”
– SIMON SINEK

It's time to stop dangling the carrot of career
advancement and rewarding toxic work habits
at the expense of mental health.

Can you afford not to?
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What will you commit to?
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Questions?
Email me at vinciane@versett.com or follow me on Twitter @vincianedepape

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