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Mental And Behavioral Health Benefits

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Mental and behavioral health benefits can help a company save money with the retention of valuable employees.Some estimates put the cost of replacing an employee at one year's salary.When an employee leaves a company, he or she takes away the relationships that have been built with key customers.This means that when the employee leaves, the business can expect to lose customers based on loyalty to that employee.Lost customers equal lost revenue!The employee also takes away the expertise that he or she has built in the job while with the company.That means that the company must train someone else and that person must learn not just how to do the job, but how to do the job right.Efficiency can only come after learning what to do, and innovation to do it better comes after that.

The world is becoming ever more dissociative as we lean more on technology for every day communication.While some believe that this brings people closer together, it actually does the opposite.Because human beings are social creatures, there is nothing that can replace the face-to-face interactions that we need to survive.Phones, email, texting and Facebook do not provide the kind of contact that people need.Mental and behavioral health benefits can.
Part of a good compensation program that will help companies keep employees will include a way to socialize even if that socialization comes in the form of psychiatric help.While going to a psychiatrist may still carry with it a stigma, it may be the only way for some people to keep their sanity.Psychiatric help can provide perspective or at the very least someone to talk to, and that can be a great comfort for someone who doesn't have any friends in the area.
A good psychiatrist can also help people who may become a danger to themselves or others."Going postal" was a popular saying in the 1990s.It was coined when, in separate incidents, a couple of postman went into the post office and began shooting people.Shooting people in the workplace is an act of extreme desperation.It says that the shooter (aside from being off-kilter) doesn't have anyone to talk to about work issues, and even if they do talk to someone, that person is unable or unwilling to help.Granted, that is an extreme case, but if there had been a mental health benefit that the employee would have been willing to partake of, "going postal" may have never happened.
Nowadays we have a slightly different problem.Children are growing up believing that they are the most important part of the universe.It may not revolve around them, but it should.With the popularity of texting and other social media being used as primary contact sources, people are no longer seen as human beings, but as interactive pixels.The regard and respect for someone else has decayed to appalling levels.
Mental and behavioral health benefits may help these types of people to become better at socializing and at seeing the worth of others.Until the sanctity of life can be brought to higher regard, employers are going to have to deal with behavior that is unethical, misogynistic and narcissistic.If everyone has the same values, this may not be so bad.The problem is that this is a time of transition as the world changes more quickly with each passing day, people are having a harder time learning to cope with the new realities, and this is where mental and behavioral health benefits can come in super handy.As people learn healthy coping mechanisms, business will be pleasant and more profitable.

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