Four years after the pandemic sent workers scurrying to work remotely, employers are still seeing fallout in the form of increased accommodation requests—this time not for COVID-19 but for mental health reasons.

Three-quarters of the 400 in-house lawyers, executives and HR people surveyed by Littler Mendelson reported an increase in requests for leaves of absence or other accommodations for mental health.

And at the largest companies, those with more than 10,000 employees, 86% of respondents reported increases in such requests involving mental health.

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