Mental health-related absence

Over a third of long-term absence is caused by psychological symptoms. If one of your employees suffers from burn-out, you are likely to have to do without them for around nine months. Yet in many cases, long-term absence caused by stress and psychologial symptoms can be prevented with timely intervention.

Unique approach to mental health-related absence

If the digital questionnaire reveals that your employee’s absence is due to psychological symptoms, we will send them a supplementary digital questionnaire. This will contain targeted questions about their medical history and relevant circumstances around their psychological symptoms. After completing the supplementary questionnaire, the employee will receive an invitation to the consultation hour within five working days. In this way, ArboNed offers your employee the right, tailored support more quickly. As the employer/manager, your regular contact will keep you informed of progress.

Tool
In preparation for the consultation hour, ArboNed will send the professional the required information based on the answers to the digital questionnaire and a supplementary advisory report in the event of psychological symptoms containing:

  • Possible duration of the employee absence.
  • Insight into the seriousness of the psychological symptoms.
  • Recommendation on interventions for an effective rehabilitation pathway.

Personal attention and expert opinion
The tailored recommendation is a tool for the consulting hour. Based on the result of the advisory report supplemented with the findings from the consultation hour, the doctor/company doctor will feed back their assessment and explanation in the problem analysis and recommendation. 

This gives you the best of two worlds: the assessment by the professional combined with a tailored scientific recommendation based on data and guidelines.

Best of 2 worlds
 

 

Additional questions

Rapid intervention

As soon as the ArboNed professional has discussed the intervention recommendation with the employee, as the employer/manager you will receive the quotation within two working days. The earlier our intervention, the sooner your employee will be able to return to work, in full or in part, and the lower your absence costs will be. That means we need to receive your approval quickly.

Rapid intervention

Proven faster, lasting recovery and lower absence costs

Our approach has been proven to reduce mental health-related absence by 20 to 25 days on average if the right intervention is taken immediately. That significantly impacts your costs. You can save substantially on every absent employee with psychological symptoms.
 

Proven faster

The benefits 

It is of course important that you and your employee receive good support and that you know where you stand as soon as possible. Together we will ensure a fast, responsible and lasting return to work, thanks to:

  • User-friendly intake via personalised digital OpMaat questionnaire. 
  • Data-driven prediction about the duration of absence (a few days or longer).
  • Personal support and data-driven recommendation about effective support/absence support pathway. 
    • The recommended interventions and the best moment to take them.
  • Added value of consulting hour:
    • Sooner where necessary, later where possible.   
    • Targeted deployment of the right professionals.
    • Avoiding unnecessary consultations, checks or other actions if the situation doesn't require them saves costs and prevents frustration.
  • Unique approach to mental health-related absence.

Our mental health-related absence pilot proves:

 

  • 25 days less absence (compared to the control group).
  • Partial recovery 20 days earlier (compared to the control group).
  • You can save significantly on every employee who is absent with psychological symptoms.
  • Employers and employees say they feel taken seriously and that they value our approach.