Mental Health Month isn’t just about wellness programs. It’s about asking whether the tools we give people actually make their days harder.
Every May, organisations roll out the familiar playbook: wellness webinars, reminders about employee assistance programs, maybe a gratitude wall in the breakroom. These things aren’t without value. But there is a harder, more structural question that rarely gets asked in the same breath as mental health: are the systems we give our people designed to support them, or designed to drain them slowly?