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Bummed Out
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Business New Haven
9/17/2001
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - Depression is common in the workplace and may be taking a major toll on productivity, according to researchers at Yale University. Studying more than 6,000 workers at three companies, researchers found that depressed workers were seven times more likely to be less productive on the job and twice as likely to take time off for health reasons than non-depressed workers.
“The perceived stigma associated with depressive disorders may thus result in a high proportion of hidden costs to employers that are not readily evident from health or disability-claims data,” the researchers reported in the Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
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