{"id":16703,"date":"2019-09-11T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/more-than-a-quarter-of-canadian-men-fear-talking-about-mental-health-at-work-135550"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:45:31","slug":"survey-finds-28-of-canadian-men-fear-talking-about-mental-health-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/survey-finds-28-of-canadian-men-fear-talking-about-mental-health-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds 28% of Canadian men fear talking about mental health at work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Mental_Health_5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Survey finds 28% of Canadian men fear talking about mental health at work\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 11, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>One in four (28 per cent) Canadian men fear their job could be at risk if they discussed their mental health at work, according to new research by Movember Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which polled 1,000 Canadian men aged between 18 and 75, also found a third of respondents said they\u2019d be reluctant to open up about their problems in case it had a negative impact on their career. As well, 42 per cent said they\u2019d be worried about colleagues making negative comments behind their backs if they discussed mental-health issues at work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/mindful-benefits-plan-design-should-consider-mental-health-126359\">Mindful benefits plan design should consider mental health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A further 33 per cent of&nbsp;survey respondents&nbsp;thought they could be held back from a promotion if they mentioned a problem they were finding difficult to cope with. And just over half (54 per cent) said they\u2019d be able to take time off work if they were struggling with their mental health or other personal issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we\u2019ve made great progress in starting to talk openly about how we are feeling, there are many men worried that a personal mental-health challenge might be revealed, especially in the workplace,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Brendan Maher<\/span>, Movember\u2019s global mental health and suicide prevention director, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Read:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/human-resources\/other\/five-tips-for-successful-workplace-mental-health-training-88133\">Five tips for successful workplace mental-health training<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/more-than-a-quarter-of-canadian-men-fear-talking-about-mental-health-at-work-135550\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 11, 2019 One in four (28 per cent) Canadian men fear their job could be at risk if they discussed their mental health at work, according to new research by Movember Canada. The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}