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Analysis of Start-Up Digital Mental Health Platforms for Enterprise: Opportunities for Enhancing Communication between Managers and Employees

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  • Hang Truong

    (Newcastle Business School, College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
    Graduate School, Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam)

  • Craig Steven McLachlan

    (Centre for Healthy Futures, Torrens University Australia, 3/333 Kent St., Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in employees being exposed to transformational stressors from within and outside the organization. This has created an opportunity for employee mental health solutions. Indeed, there has been a rapid growth in start-ups offering clinical mental health services via a digital health platform. These platforms servicing enterprise employee mental health needs have not been evaluated with respect to their ability to enhance management communication. Hence, the aims of the present study are to explore communication and service attributes across a sample of five operational leading commercial start-up platforms for mental service delivery to employees. We have observed that all platform models focused on providing on-demand mental health consultation services. Existing platforms fail to adequately support management communication for mental health solutions across 80% of platforms reviewed. We recommend that industry start-ups should understand the need for management engagement with digital mental health platforms. Digital mental health platform solutions in the workplace are ideally supported by valuing leadership communication. A culture around mental health will create sustainability in digital mental health solutions for an organization.

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  • Hang Truong & Craig Steven McLachlan, 2022. "Analysis of Start-Up Digital Mental Health Platforms for Enterprise: Opportunities for Enhancing Communication between Managers and Employees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-12, March.
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