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5 strategies employers can use to address workplace mental health issues

  • Written by Patricia L. Haynes, Associate Professor of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona
imageMany workers are stressed out. Symphonie/The Image Bank via Getty Images

COVID-19 has inflicted a serious mental health toll on many U.S. workers.

Like other Americans, workers have lost loved ones, connections to friends and family, and the comforts of their daily social rhythms. The pandemic has also imposed a unique set of stresses on workers,...

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