By opening up a preventative-focused path for employees, you:

Offer a way forward for any employee, regardless of where they are on the mental health spectrum (and we're all somewhere on the mental spectrum, just as we are on the spectrum of physical health)
Help your organization achieve a vision of care for employees, with support and total well-being

In addition to removing the barrier that the stigma of mental health still creates, an underlying truth about employee benefits in general also argues in favor of a mental well-being solution that is easy for employees to understand, engage with, and empowers them to navigate their own path. That truth is that even before employers started adopting a more holistic benefits model, employees were confused and often unaware of the value of their benefits at all. For example, a survey from Voya Financial found that:

35% of employees don't understand the benefits they select during enrollment
54% of millennials don't understand their benefit selections
66% of workers want their companies to help them better understand their benefits all year, not only during open enrollment
78% of millennials want more communication about their benefits throughout 2021

Simplifying the journey toward better employee mental health for everyone

Let's assume you agree with the belief we mentioned above — that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, just as we're all somewhere on the broad spectrum of physical health. If you adopt a clinically proven mental health solution that has the same North Star and that provides self-assessments, tools, and support for every worker, it's suddenly much simpler to promote the value of your employee mental health benefits and programs. Just as you're removing the barrier of asking employees to talk with their managers or HR leaders about their mental health concerns, you no longer need to struggle to get engagement by trying to explain the value of treatment-based programs or the often-convoluted path employees need to follow to use those benefits.

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