In recent years, mental health awareness has risen. Public figures, from Michael Phelps to Lady Gaga have spoken publicly. However, businesses have given a slow reaction, especially the small ones. Understanding the significance of workers’ mental health to business performance, small businesses should address the mental health of their workers. The struggle of small businesses’ employee is indeed hard.
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From an economic perspective, workplace mental health issues lead to higher unemployment rates. Moreover, the same issues can also diminish productivity. A report from OECD shows SMEs’ constrains to take care of their employee’s mental health. The first constraint is their lack of awareness about the business benefit they can get. The second constraint is their lack of information about the best way to help their staff.
Besides, unlike larger companies, small businesses also still suffer from survivability problems. That problems include lack of investment, adhoc business processes, non-existent human resources departments. At the same time, they need to also face a higher turnover of employees and lack of agility.
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Employees’ struggle to survive
SMEs are facing an intense battle with big multinationals companies. They struggle to achieve the right balance between demand for their business and supply of their products or services. Consequently, one of the small businesses’ employee struggle is in job certainty.
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The condition put the employees to have long working hours. In addition, SMEs’ lack of funds means they have to employ a minimum number of people. A minimum number of people forces them to handle multiple roles. Thus, their working hours become more unbearable.
Their struggles are not stopped there. SMEs are naturally high specialized. With demand-controlled by customers, the employees have to also have specific technical skills. The skills need to involve years of training and also lifelong on-the-job training. As a result that increases the amount of ambiguity of their responsibilities. At the end, they have psychological distress, job stress burnout, depression, and no work-life balance.
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