CCF Corporate Wellness Wing

Statistics on mental health issues in India

The World Health Organization warns that the economic impact of poor mental health in India exceeds $1.03 trillion from 2012 to 2030. In 2022, data indicates that Indian employers are expected to incur approximately 1,100 billion Indian rupees due to poor mental health. Of this total cost, around 510 billion rupees is attributed to employee presenteeism, while absenteeism accounts for 140 billion rupees.

What are the cost implications of poor mental health to organizations?

Various studies on the Cost of Illness (COI) categorize the financial consequences of illness into two types of costs.

Direct costs:

This encompasses healthcare expenses, medical services, treatment, rehabilitation, and related costs

• Productivity losses resulting from presenteeism
• Productivity losses resulting from absenteeism
• Talent loss due to attrition and high recruitment Expenses
• Poor employee morale and reduced resilience slowing down any organizational changes

Indirect costs:

Tangible costs incurred due to presenteeism such as sickness absence, procedures, policies, and workplace support, and intangible human costs like emotional distress, declining health, lack of focus, and reduced quality of life. These intangible costs are challenging to quantify and are therefore rarely included in COI studies.

What do organizations expect from their workforce?

Organizations expect employees to deliver consistent and superior performance. Any decline or drop in performance will adversely affect the organization’s overall financial performance in terms of profit, margin and EBITDA. The continuous task demands and lack of professional support within an organization's ecosystem will cause huge frustration and distress in employees and that in turn affects their work performance, leading to their disgraceful separation from the organization. The direct consequences mentioned above are just the tip of the iceberg, as the indirect repercussions of an employee's declining mental health will vitiate the Organization’s morale and its culture.

Partnering with CCF will create a happy and productive workforce

Chennai Counselors’ Foundation (CCF) has a dedicated panel of Corporate Wellness Champions (CWC) with over two hundred years of combined corporate and counseling experience. They were rigorously trained in various Psychotherapy techniques like ACT, EFT, CBT, REBT, SFBT, DBT, NLP and they are known for contextually applying the nuggets of Freudian, Adlerian and Rogerian paradigms with their clients. Given their propensity to help combined with the credentials they bring to the table, the panel of CWC understands the unique challenges that organizations grapple with in managing employees' psychological struggles they experience at work and home.

CCF's CWCG is deeply committed to the cause of designing, developing and delivering bespoke Corporate Wellness intervention initiatives. These interventions endeavor to support employees at all levels, empower them to develop psychological immunity, and become antifragile to tide over the volatility of corporate reality.

More importantly, CCF provides a wide range of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) to support organizations in enhancing the mental health and well-being of their employees. CCF offers holistic and 360-degree services to address personal and professional challenges that include marital and relationship issues, parenting, and geriatric and pediatric care services to name a few.

A broad outline of our service offerings encompasses the following:

• Addressing Workplace Challenges like Harassment, Stress, and workplace derailers
• Delivering time-bound Developmental engagements with managers and above to work on the areas of improvement flagged by the reporting managers.
• Facilitating Customized programs to help employees become resilient and anti-fragile.
• Delivering Bespoke Behavioral training interventions for diverse groups to scale, succeed, grow and thrive in their career.
• Co-creating solutions to address Relationship/Marital Challenges of employees.
• Offering Time tested coping strategies to the parenting-related stress of employees.
• Providing Tools and techniques to bolster the well-being of their children.

The services mentioned above would be delivered through:

• One-to-one counseling/therapy sessions or group sessions (in-person or online)
• Psychoeducation
• Workshops
• Webinars

CCF is committed to ensuring that all corporate wellness champions adhere to CCF ethical guidelines and protect the confidentiality of the client. More importantly, they ensure respecting the client is a foundational value in the true Rogerian spirit

CCF collaborates with established departments, organizational committees, or specialized groups to streamline or update organizational policies by exchanging insights gained from the services mentioned above within the ethical boundaries. Such groups may include:

• POSH committee
• CISD
• Ombudspersons or Whistleblowers
• L&D team
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion