Aubay Portugal promotes mental health with new partnership with Team 24

Since the beginning of 2023, Aubay Portugal has been offering free psychology consultations to its employees. Now, this support will be even more extensive, through a new partnership with Team 24, which will make it possible to guarantee continuous monitoring by qualified professionals and an immediate response to each person's needs, through a telephone line, chat and video consultations.

For the Chief People Officer of Aubay Portugal, João Miguel Rodrigues, this partnership aims to "draw people's attention to the importance of looking after our mental health and keeping an eye on the signs, making it clear that, at Aubay, we are not alone. "Connect to your wellbeing" is the statement we've created to bring this partnership to life, which in addition to providing simple, practical and quick access to psychological support, aims to give people more literacy on the subject."

For Ana Ruivo, Team 24's Chief Operations Office, "investing in the prevention and promotion of employee mental health is a winning bet with a guaranteed return on investment. When we invest in our people's mental health, we are showing genuine concern for their well-being, but we are also fostering their full personal and professional development, which is guaranteed to increase the company's productivity and sustainability. Psychological support is one of the benefits most desired by employees and has the greatest impact on their work life balance, engagement, attracting and retaining talent and with the greatest direct ROI for the organisation."

Through its Health and Well-being Programme, PULSE by Aubay, the consultancy has been organising various initiatives, such as workshops and awareness talks dedicated not only to mental health, but also to many other dimensions of well-being. This topic will be addressed again next March with a workshop organised by Team 24 itself and a webinar on "how to deal with stress", as part of the Aubay Academy.

According to the document "Prosperity and Sustainability of Organisations - Report on the Cost of Stress and Psychological Health Problems at Work", drawn up by the Portuguese Psychologists' Association, absenteeism cost companies in Portugal 1.8 billion euros in 2022.