Employees struggling with their mental health are 32% less productive. It takes people, on average, TWO YEARS to recognise they need help.

That's 2 years of:

* 32% reduced productivity

* Rising presenteeism

* Mounting costs

* Declining engagement

* Growing turnover risk

Yet most companies' idea of "prevention" is:

* A one-off wellbeing week

* Annual stress surveys

* Meditation or EAP app subscriptions

* "Resilience" workshops

This isn't prevention. It's box-ticking.

Real prevention means ongoing, consistent support on employees' terms.

Instead, we wait for crises, offer short-term fixes, ignore early warnings, and then wonder why nothing changes.

Your "prevention" strategy is probably just crisis management in disguise.

If your mental health support isn't long-term, easily accessible, on employees' terms and available before crisis point

...then you're not preventing anything. You're just managing decline.

Calculate what 32% lost productivity costs your business over two years. Then ask yourself if your current approach is really working.