Mental health training for line managers linked to better business performance, says study

Mental health training for line managers linked to better business performance in England. Credit: Jopwell, Pexels, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In a study of several thousand companies in England, mental health training for line managers was associated with organizational-level benefits, including lower levels of long-term mental health-related sickness absence and better business performance, customer service, and staff recruitment and retention. The project was led by Professor Holly Blake of the University of Nottingham and Dr. Juliet Hassard of Queen’s University Belfast, UK, who present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 17. Mental health training for line managers aims Read More