D#5, HW#5 - Taking Personal Inventory

Although I need to do more research to identify specific controversial points of my issue (depression in the workplace), so far I have seen that one point is the view that mental well-being is taking second place to profit in the workplace. I have a source in one of my annotated bibliography entries that discusses this exact point. WP#2 would be handy right now, to find that bib entry. Companies want to push employees for maximum output and productivity, often creating a high stress environment, contributing to the development of mental illness. This is counterproductive. I have been in a high-stress position in a very aggressive company, and do think it contributed to my latest bout of depression. Companies would want to be proactive in preventing mental illness in the workplace by learning what contributes to it, and affecting practices to minimize it, thus raising overall productivity (and profit). I think currently most companies are ignoring the fact that driving the bottom line without generous sensitivity to worker's mental states is counterproductive. One possible research I haven't thought of previously is looking for documents relevant to this issue that are published by large companies. Internal policies on this will be hard to access, but I could possibly score an interview with an HR contact from my old employer, a publicly-held, nationwide company. I need to better establish actual companies views on this issue.