ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2019
Return-to-Work Following Depression: What Work Accommodations Do Employers and Human Resources Directors Put in Place?
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- Efficacy of an Online Workplace Mental Health Accommodations Psychoeducational Course: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Healthy Minds: Group Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Sustainable Return to Work After a Sick Leave Due to Depression.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Trial
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- Managers' Use of Organizational Resources when Supporting Employees with Common Mental Disorders: A Swedish Qualitative Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Realising the Case Management Ideal in Multi-organisational Coordination Work to Support Work Ability and (Re)employment in Finland.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Occupational therapists' perceived ability to facilitate reasonable accommodations in the workplace for employees with major depressive disorders.African journal of disability · 2026Article
- Staying at Work with Musculoskeletal Pain in a Physically Demanding Job: A Qualitative Exploration of Workers' and Managers' Perspectives.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace and its Association with Possible Actions of Managers to Prevent Sickness Absence of Employees with Mental Health Problems in the Swedish Private Sector: a Video Vignette Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT): A Nine-Month Evaluation of Use, Changes in Self-efficacy, Presenteeism, and Absenteeism in Workers with Chronic and Episodic Disabilities.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Strategic Human Resource Management Practices and the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: A Two-Wave Study Among Employers.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Developing a Work Accommodation Operating Model for Workplaces and Work Ability Support Services.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Measuring the influence of perceived organizational support, organizational hierarchy culture, strategic human resource management, and psychological empowerment on the return to work.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Understanding the Unmet Accommodation Needs of People Working with Mental or Cognitive Conditions: The Importance of Gender, Gendered Work, and Employment Factors.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Using intervention mapping to develop evidence-based toolkits that support workers on long-term sick leave and their managers.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Supporting employees with mental illness and reducing mental illness-related stigma in the workplace: an expert survey.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Discrepancies between workers with disabilities and their supervisors in reported work accommodations and associations with return to work.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Work as an arena for health-Supervisors' experiences with attending to employees' sick leave and return-to-work process.PloS one · 2023Article
- Swedish managers' experience-based understanding of the Capacity to work in employees with Common Mental Disorders: a Focus Group Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- A Standpoint Approach to Return-to-Work Coordination: Understanding Union Roles.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Functional status and return to work in people with major depression: a 3-year national follow-up study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The magnitude of economic and social costs related to common mental disorders has a profound impact on the workplace. Returning to work following depression is, therefore, a major issue for all stakeholders involved (employee, employer, human resources director, union, physician, etc.). Considering their role in the organization, Human Resources Directors (HRD) and employers have a decisive impact on the return-to-work (RTW) process. Purpose This study aims to determine which RTW accommodations are implemented, following depression, by one of the central stakeholders: HRD and employers. Methods 219 HRD/employers participated in a semi-structured telephone interview about RTW of employees after depression. From that interview, the question related to this article was: Do you put in place work accommodations for employees after a sick leave due to depression (yes or no)? If their response was positive, we asked: If yes, what were the work accommodations? Results 170 HRD/employers specified accommodations. The most common categories identified were related to: work schedule, task modifications, job change and work environment change. Accommodations directly related to the employee or the colleagues were considerably less mentioned and those concerning other RTW stakeholders, including supervisor, were almost absent. Conclusion Our results suggest that accommodations directly related to work aspects seemed to predominate in our sample of HRD/employers when an employee returned-to-work following depression. The relational aspect and the involvement of the different stakeholders are also not prioritized to accommodate the RTW. These results contrast with employer best practice guidelines for the RTW of workers with common mental disorders.
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