Qualtrics -The Other COVID-19 Crisis: Mental Health.
ENPNewswire-April 15, 2020--Qualtrics -The Other COVID-19 Crisis: Mental Health
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Release date- 14042020 - Social isolation, employment uncertainty, and the virus itself have combined to shock the health and wellbeing of employees around the world.
And while leaders are rightly focused on the physical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's another global challenge emerging: mental health.
Below are the findings from a study of more than 2,000 employees conducted at the end of March and early April 2020 in Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the US.
The Mental Health Shock
Two out of five (41.6%) of respondents said that their mental health has declined since the COVID-19 outbreak. The number of people who rated the state of their mental health in the lowest range (3 or under on a 10-point scale) has doubled since the outbreak began.
Moving to a new remote or alternative work arrangement impacts employees' mental health significantly:
44.4% of those who are now working from home say their mental health has declined.
Newly remote workers are 30% more likely than those still employed in any other setting (office, non-traditional office setting, self-employed, etc.) to say their mental health has declined.
Unemployed workers have the highest proportion of mental health declines (48.5%) followed by newly remote workers (44.4%), and then all other employed workers (34.1%).
The unknown may have a bigger impact on mental health than even getting losing one's job. Furloughed workers are 37% more likely than those who have been laid off to report declines in mental health
For those who have worked from home for more than 2 weeks, they are 50% more likely to say that their mental health has declined due to 'more chronic sadness' and 'more fatigue'
Mental health is suffering about the same at all levels of organizations:
44.0% of individual contributors report decreased mental health
40.5% of C-level employees report decreased mental health
40.1% of managers report decreased mental health
Workers report lower average mental health and significantly lower 'lows' since the outbreak began.
Workers report lower mental health since the outbreak began
Respondents who said their mental health had declined were asked what things had had the biggest impact on that decline. The top five reasons were:
More anxiety (24.0%)
More stress (20.1%)
Worry about losing their job (14.2%)
Being less busy (8.6%)
Challenges of working from home (8.5%)
Stress and Anxiety
We asked workers to report on different aspects of their mental health.
Level of stress since the coronavirus outbreak
Stress: Stress has increased for the vast majority of people since the COVID-19 outbreak: 65.9% of people report higher levels of stress since the outbreak, while only 8.2%...
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