The fourth Mentally Healthy survey launches today, aiming to understand the mental health state of people working across the media, marketing and creative sectors in 2024.
Organisers Never Not Creative and The Mentally Healthy Change Group are aiming for more than 2,000 respondents from Australia, while rolling the survey out across the US, New Zealand and the UK.
There is a new focus on how workplace expectation, roles and working models (hybrid, remote etc) are impacting the industry’s mental health. This includes questions around the awareness and implementation of psychosocial hazard legislation and guidance which came into effect in Australia in 2023 and applies to all businesses.
The survey will remain open until midnight on May 3.
Co-chair of The Mentally Healthy Change Group and founder of Never Not Creative, Andy Wright, said the industry’s one true differentiator is the skills of its people.
"But are we doing enough to ensure we’re doing what we can to enable them to really shine?" he said.
“The Mentally Healthy Survey has become a real benchmark for our performance as an industry in how we are treating people and has helped to spark big conversations and some tangible changes. But the job is by no means done, so it is important we keep the spotlight shining brightly here.
"The more responses we get, the better our understanding will be of where the opportunities and barriers to improvement are.”
Previous surveys have revealed significant gaps in mental well-being between different agency types and generational attitudes to mental health.
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