[Reporting of work-related mental health]

Along with the structural changes of the economy, the psychological well-being of employees becomes increasingly important for their performance. The reporting of mental well-being at the organizational level is an essential precondition for occupational health interventions. This article deals with the mental health of employees from ten different companies. These data show that almost 1 in 5 employees rate their mental well-being as poor. Most notably, women with lower status in the services sector are affected. Those who are temporarily in a bad mood are often affected by strong physical complaints and tend to assess the quality of their work as rather poor. Moreover, the data from 3,349 employees show that the extent of social capital of an organization highly correlates with the mental well-being of their employees. Our results show that work-related stress factors and (psychological) illnesses can be detected and prevented more often if the influence of social parameters on mental well-being are taken into consideration.