Healthy Workplace Ireland

The Healthy Workplace Ireland: A Survey of Mental Health & Well-Being Promotion in Irish Firms, authored by Dr. Jane Bourke (UCC) Prof. Stephen Roper (Warwick Business School) and Niamh Lenihan (MTU & UCC), highlights the challenges Irish employers face in relation to employee mental ill health and the organisational response to such challenges. For the first time, we provide large-scale evidence of health and well-being promotion in Irish workplaces, as well as data on absenteeism for physical and mental ill-health reasons, presenteeism and their impact on business performance.1,501 Irish employers in the private sector with 10 or more employees took part in the Workplace Mental Health & Well-being in Ireland survey between September and December 2022. This report, part of a broader international study, also compares the prevalence of mental ill health, absenteeism and presenteeism in Irish and English workplaces, as well as differences in how employers are responding to these challenges.