{"id":625853,"date":"2026-10-09T23:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625853\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:20:38","slug":"mental-health-stigma-in-the-workplace-persists-heres-how-we-can-support-employees-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625853\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health stigma in the workplace persists. Here&#8217;s how we can support employees better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">With the Workplace Fairness Act kicking in next year, companies must implement real operational changes<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">WORLD Mental Health Day falls on Saturday (Oct 10). This year\u2019s theme is \u201cLived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change\u201d, which emphasises the importance of listening to people and urging changes in policy and the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Despite increased awareness of mental health in Singapore, a critical question remains: Have we achieved pervasive, actual implementation of real and tangible support for people with mental health conditions in our workplaces?<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The honest answer is no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Workplace Fairness Act kicking in next year, companies must implement real operational changes WORLD Mental Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,14747,554,555,111,139,69,2812],"class_list":["post-625853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-workplace-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}