{"id":872827,"date":"2025-09-14T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/workers-taking-mental-health-leaves-have-increased-by-300-since-2019-according-to-a-new-study\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:12:04","slug":"workers-taking-mental-health-leaves-have-increased-by-300-since-2019-according-to-a-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/workers-taking-mental-health-leaves-have-increased-by-300-since-2019-according-to-a-new-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Taking Mental Health Leaves Have Increased By 300% Since 2019, According to a New Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Workers are taking more mental health leaves <\/b>now than they were in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic started.<\/p>\n

According to data collected by behavioral health services provider ComPsych<\/a>, the percentage of workers taking a leave of <\/b>absence increased by 30% from 2019 to 2024, while mental health leaves increased by 300% in the same time frame. ComPsych analyzed data from over six million global employees.<\/p>\n

ComPsych’s Chief Clinical Officer Jennifer Birdsall told CNBC<\/i><\/a> that mental health leaves <\/b>have increased “so tremendously” due to factors like uncertain economic conditions<\/a>. In addition, the pandemic lessened the stigma around asking for mental health support and allowed people to understand their options better, she explained.<\/p>\n

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The data showed that employers should rethink how they approach managing absences and handling employee well-being, said ComPsych CEO Paul Posey.<\/p>\n

“The pandemic fundamentally reset norms in absence management for employers,” Posey said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The data shows that the levels of employees taking a leave of absence have begun to stabilize in recent years, indicating a “new normal,” Posey stated. Numbers were up 33% from 2022 to 2023, but then flattened out from 2023 to 2024. The number of leaves of absence in general was also flat from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n

A survey from business consulting firm Mercer<\/a>, released earlier this year, asked more than 500 organizations what they were doing to support employee behavioral health. Nearly 80% said they have taken action or plan to take action in 2026 to provide digital resources for stress management, and 20% said they conducted anti-stigma campaigns for mental health.<\/p>\n

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Workers are taking more mental health leaves <\/b>now than they were in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic started.<\/p>\n

According to data collected by behavioral health services provider ComPsych<\/a>, the percentage of workers taking a leave of <\/b>absence increased by 30% from 2019 to 2024, while mental health leaves increased by 300% in the same time frame. ComPsych analyzed data from over six million global employees.<\/p>\n

ComPsych’s Chief Clinical Officer Jennifer Birdsall told CNBC<\/i><\/a> that mental health leaves <\/b>have increased “so tremendously” due to factors like uncertain economic conditions<\/a>. In addition, the pandemic lessened the stigma around asking for mental health support and allowed people to understand their options better, she explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Workers are taking more mental health leaves now than they were in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic started. According to data collected by behavioral health services provider ComPsych, the percentage of workers taking a leave of absence increased by 30% from 2019 to 2024, while mental health leaves increased by 300% in the same time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,198],"tags":[6120,5910],"class_list":{"0":"post-872827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-taking","8":"category-workers","9":"tag-taking","10":"tag-workers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}