Mental Health Crisis Now Accounts for 42% of German Disability Pensions Amid Broad Workplace Safety - AD HOC NEWS

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Workplace safety in Germany is increasingly a mental-health story. At the 11th Prevention Forum of the National Prevention Conference in Berlin on June 23, experts revealed that psychological disorders drove 16.7 percent of all sick-leave days in 2024 — and 42 percent of all disability pensions granted last year. Speakers urged companies to integrate digitalisation and “technostress” into routine …