Calm Business bolsters workplace offering to address ‘urgent’ employee mental health needs

Calm Business, Calm’s workplace mental health platform, has announced a suite of product updates to “uplevel” employer mental health strategies.

Calm Business launched in 2020 to bring workplaces Calm as a benefit for employees and provide people leaders analytics, workshops and customer service as they navigated supporting employee mental health.

Now, the platform expands its product to address what is describes as critical pain points that have emerged for HR, benefits and business leaders and help them build offerings for their workforce needs.

Employee engagement and overall wellbeing are low with many employees quietly quitting. Gallup has found only 23 per cent of employees are thriving at work with the other 77 per cent noting they are not engaged or actively disengaged.

Even more alarming – the impact isn’t solely on the individual employee – people leaders are feeling the direct impact, with 98 per cent experiencing burn out trying to support their teams.

Additionally, research has shown one in three working women experience symptoms of depression or anxiety, with many fearing to take time off.

“We know people leaders are managing more than ever, all while trying to keep employee well-being high,” said Calm president, Alex Will.

“Our Calm Business team is continually evolving our product to support customers as they build strategies unique to their workforce to increase productivity and employee happiness.”

“Today’s new product release was directly informed by customer feedback looking for more personalised and customised tools.”

The new features will be available for employers with 101+ employees through Calm Business’ Enterprise Plan and include in-app collections of Calm content to address organisation’s mental health challenges, mental health resources into employees’ workdays through integrations with tools like Zoom as well as employee check-ins.

Scott Brown, group employee experience manager at Environmental Resources Management (ERM), said: “The new Calm Business features provide impactful insight into how we can respond best to our employees to support their mental health.

“The new offerings help us add to our benefits and allow us to take more informed and personalised steps to support our people.”

Calm Business currently supports more than 3,000 organisations in helping them improve employee mental health and wellbeing.