Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-being: Five Essentials

The Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well‑Being presents Five Essentials that support workplaces as drivers of well-being.²⁸ As highlighted in the third Essential Work-Life Harmony, professional and personal life roles merge to create work and non-work conflicts. The ability to balance work with personal stressors reflects the human desire for autonomy and flexibility.

The key components of Work-Life Harmony include:

a) Providing more autonomy over how work is managed and performed;

b) Making work schedules as flexible and predictable as possible;

c) Increasing access to paid leave (such as sick and personal/family paid leave, and paid vacation time); and

d) Respecting.

Figure 5. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well Being - Five Essentials

Figure 5. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well Being - Five Essentials

Source: https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/workplace-well-being/index.html