Employees' Mental Health Reflects Key ESG Indicators...The introduction of psychological tests by organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and financial sectors surged
Jul 27, 2025
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As mental health and psychological stability are attracting attention as key indicators for measuring the organization's non-financial performance, there is a growing demand for emotional expression and psychological stability, especially among the MZ generation. Accordingly, an emotion-based management method that regularly diagnoses members' emotional states and comes up with improvement measures is emerging as a strategy to increase corporate reputation and sustainability.
According to 2023 data from global HR platform Nailed, more than 85% of large companies around the world operate wellness programs, many of which also publish mental health related data in ESG reports. In addition, according to reports from global organizations such as the ESG Reporting Hub and Northstar EAP, companies with employee well-being at the heart of their ESG strategy are achieving significant results in productivity, collaboration, and employee retention, leading to investment attraction and enhanced reputation.
This trend is also rapidly spreading to domestic companies. Emotional risks such as ▲ emotional exhaustion due to emotional labor, relationship conflicts, and heavy stress ▲ decreased work commitment ▲ accidents caused by negligence ▲ decreased fraud lead to non-financial losses such as decreased productivity within the organization, increased turnover, and deteriorated organizational credibility. Accordingly, the demand to identify and systematically manage these risks in advance is steadily increasing.
According to a research team from Dine Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Nudge Healthcare Co., Ltd. and a company specializing in EAP (worker support program), the introduction of organizational psychological tests has increased by more than 46% annually over the past two years, mainly in the manufacturing, IT, and financial sectors, and has already achieved 71% of the previous year's total performance in the first half of 2025. This proves that emotional risk management by industry group is no longer an option, but an essential management element based on ESG.
Dain is providing an end-to-end mental healthcare solution centered on EAP. Beyond simple psychological counseling, Dain's EAP has an integrated infrastructure that connects ▲ organization-tailored psychological survey design ▲ collection and analysis of worker sentiment data by industry and job group ▲ provision of individual and organizational reports ▲ organizational psychological improvement workshops and mental health education. In particular, emotion-based data is used as a means to identify and respond to psychological risks in an organization early, and serves as a practical basis for quantifying and explaining mental health indicators in the ESG report 'Social (S)' item.
A multi-person official said "As social awareness of psychological stability is spreading, a system that can manage it and lead to practical improvement is needed at the corporate level.""Dine's EAP will go beyond ESG evaluation measures to substantially contribute to emotional leadership and the formation of a healthy psychological culture within the organization""
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
