With the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of digital and remote working, people have felt increasing stress, anxiety, depression and fatigue. What is the Parliament doing to tackle this mental health crisis? On top of proposing to make 2023 the European Year of Mental Health, report author Maria Walsh is proposing solutions at the EU level: a right to disconnect, better work-life balance and new progressive directives are in the pipeline.

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“You can never do enough": Mental health in the digital workplace

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through the digitalisation of our workplaces

from Covid is the fact that we're seeing huge

we have increased levels of anxiety, depression,

We now have a mobile office at all times, in our hand.

It is extremely difficult because how do you disconnect?

The economic impact, the societal impact

that we have seen on mental health, if we do not address it now,

when we're at these crossroads of great change,

of bringing our EU together, it's not this generation

that will suffer from it. It's going to be the future generations.

We're calling for a psychosocial directive,

further work on the right to disconnect.

You can never do enough: best practices, signposting,

working on really progressive legislation.

So we are creating and becoming the gold standard

when it comes to mental health and wellness