Spec Furniture’s Focus on Mental Health Extends to Employees
Healthcare visits are stressful for just about everyone. For behavioral and mental health patients making an office visit, the anxiety is often worse. Creating calming and safe spaces for these patients is a specialty at Spec Furniture. And its expertise in the area of behavioral and mental health spaces has led to an even more important focus for the Toronto-based furniture maker: on the mental health of its own employees. Mental health is increasingly being recognized as an important issue, said Chris Benjamin, Spec Furniture’s general manager and chief operating officer, and that is driving more public and private funding to help support it. “Increasingly, it is becoming more part of the general conversation,” he said. “We’re not just talking about mental health as a market that Spec sells into; we’re also talking about mental health as something that Spec looks at internally. That’s true of a lot of businesses, …
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