ESDC Workplace Mental Health Survey

2019 Survey Results

Refer to the Workplace Mental Health Survey PowerPoint to learn how to interpret the survey results.

To obtain your Branch/Region Report, you must issue a request to the WMH team directly.

Survey Respondents

All ESDC employees were invited to complete the 2019 WMHS, and 7,874 participated, for a response rate of 30%. Respondents represent employees from Employment and Social Development (29.1%), Service Canada (67.9%) and the Labour Program (3.0%), as well as a range of employee experiences across all business lines, levels, regions and demographic characteristics.

ESDC Workplace Mental Health Survey 2019 – Who Participated

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Purpose of the survey

The purpose of the Workplace Mental Health Survey (WMHS) is to hear directly from ESDC employees about their experiences in the workplace as they relate to psychological health and safety.

Results are used to gauge how we are doing, as a department, in ensuring that ours is a psychologically healthy and safe workplace where all employees can thrive. Results are also used to shape the departmental, branch and regional workplace mental health action plans (Action Plan 2018-2021).
Collection Period

The WMHS is administered every two years. ESDC first launched the WMHS in February 2017.
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Workplace mental health survey results

ESDC Workplace Mental Health Survey

Workplace Mental Health – We each have a role to play.

“The Survey results are a doorway into
important discussions about ourselves,
our teams, and our workplaces.”

Using Your Branch/Region Report for Planning

The purpose of the Planning Guide is to help all employees understand the results of ESDC's WMHS; identify workplace areas of strength and concern; and use the results to guide planning activities.
Putting Survey Results into Action for Your Team

The PowerPoint presentation helps an employee read and understand the survey results. This understanding lays the foundation to allow for conversations on the workplace well-being of the department and of individual teams.

The purpose of the Team Discussion Guide is to support managers, supervisors and team leads to have discussions with their teams about their workplace well-being, using the WMHS results as a starting point.