HR leaders have invested significantly in mental health benefits over the past five years. Lyra Health’s 2025 data shows 65% of employees still find those resources unhelpful. The gap isn’t about program quality — it’s about targeting. Wellness benefits address individual coping. They don’t address the structural cause of deteriorating mental health at work: unmanageable workloads assigned to single individuals without adequate coverage or recovery infrastructure. This episode makes the case for workload structure as a mental health strategy.
Here's What You'll Learn in This Episode:
The Lyra Health, McKinsey, and Deloitte data on workplace mental health: what’s driving deterioration and why individual interventions aren’t moving the needle
Why 87% of job sharers report the arrangement was the difference between staying in and leaving their role — the structural retention data behind mental health improvement
The business case for reimagining work structures: reduced absenteeism, lower turnover costs, higher sustained performance, and reduced mental health leave claims
The retention data from The Job Share Project: 87% of job sharers say it was the difference between staying and leaving their company, and the PwC finding that job share teams consistently outperformed individual contributors on client satisfaction and project outcomes
Research & Resources:
Episode 41: A Wake-Up Call for Working Moms: What Two Job Sharers Did to Save Their Health—and Their Sanity
Episode 30: My Coping Strategies: How Job Sharing Creates Stability During Uncertain Times
McKinsey's Women in the Workplace Report, 2023
Episode Website: workmuse.com/42
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