Supporting Employee Mental Health with Geoff Smith

This week we begin a new series on Depression in the Workplace. My first guest is Geoff Smith, who heads LL Bean's Employee Assistance Program, or EAP. We talk about what an EAP can do to destigmatize depression within a company, and why it's in every employer's best interest to identify and help workers who are struggling with it. Geoff describes some of the reasons why workplace depression is rising worldwide, and the elements that make a job more or less likely to bring on depression.