Germany: pioneering employee mental health project at mutual insurance group DEVK Versicherungen

‘Mental health: stop the taboo’ is the title of the corporate health management (CHM) project that the German mutual insurance group DEVK Versicherungen implemented in 2022, earning it a prestigious HR award in September 2022. The recipe for its success is that it is an all-employee programme using a multidimensional approach with full management support. Stephan Wegner, DEVK health manager and project leader, talks to mind RH about the origins of the project, its objectives and initial results.

By Thomas Schnee. Published on 06 June 2023 à 12h40 - Update on 06 June 2023 à 18h46

Every month, DEVK’s (founded over 136 years ago, originally ‘by railway men for railway men’) approximately 7,500 employees get to see a short new meditation video that one of their own colleagues produces and posts onto the company’s health website. The video can be viewed at any time. This initiative is part of the wide range of mental health awareness and prevention actions the insurance group has been deploying. According to Stephan Wegner, mental health is still a sensitive, even taboo, subject in companies and in society. A topic that people hardly dare discuss openly,…

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