Clinical perspective on workplace mental health, from the CorpCARE team.
Small and medium-sized businesses employ a huge share of Alberta's workforce, yet they're often left out of the workplace mental health conversation - assumed to be too small to offer meaningful support. That's a costly…
Every year reshapes how we think about mental health at work, and 2026 was no exception. Economic pressure, evolving work models, and a workforce more willing than ever to talk about mental health combined to teach - or…
Fly-in/fly-out and remote-camp work stacks isolation, long rotations, and distance from support systems. That combination is a known mental health risk employers can actively manage.
Absenteeism is easy to count - someone isn't there. Presenteeism is harder and usually bigger: the employee is present but impaired, working at a fraction of their capacity because of an untreated condition. Research…
"Mental health professional" is an umbrella term covering roles with very different training, regulation, and legal authority. If you're buying a workplace mental health program, knowing who can do what is the…
Wellness apps have earned their place in the workplace. They're accessible, private, available at 2 a.m., and genuinely useful for stress, sleep, and building healthy habits at scale. But the marketing around them…
You offer mental health benefits. Your people know they can reach out. And yet, when an employee genuinely needs to see a psychiatrist, they often still can't - not for months. That gap between the benefit you offer and…
Every workplace mental health vendor will tell you they deliver care. Most deliver benefits - access, support, resources - which is not the same thing. Use this checklist to tell them apart before you sign.