The world has reported ill-health concerns, whereby workplace data still records 420,000 employees in Britain alone in the year of 2006, who have acknowledged stress, depression or anxiety.  If health and safety data is proving an escalation becoming hazardous in the workplace, addressing this earlier has become a clear direction moving forwards.  The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health identified business costs in the workplace: £8.4 billion due to sickness absence, £15.1 billion as reduced productivity and £2.4 billion staff turnover, equating to an astronomical figure of £26 billion each year as a total cost to employers of mental health problems.

Our research investigates mental health management methods and data sources from a wider environment looking at various industries and company sizes reviewing authors methodology, rationale and impact to gain further understanding of the implications surrounding society.  These include early identification and prevention practices which should enable employers to save 30 percent or more, at least £8 billion a year, as The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health illustrates.  Taking action through effective communication, training and support will have a far better result avoiding the elephant in the room phrase but demonstrating the need to be transparent because mental health cannot be neglected anymore.

By reviewing current literature around mental health methods, we have identified 3 options to help companies and their people: