Discussing mental health in the workplace is often considered taboo, but a D.C.-based entrepreneur and business owner says normalizing discussion of how employees are thinking and feeling will reap financial benefits.

In his recent TED Talk , Dan Simons, co-owner of Founding Farmers Restaurant Group, and host of WTOP’s “Founding DC” podcast , opened with a question to business leaders: “You’re telling me, when we’re in the workplace, we can talk about our broken ankle, we can talk about our torn ACL, but we can’t talk about our depression and anxiety?”

Simons told business leaders “mental health is a workplace topic,” despite the current status quo in most companies when it comes to mental health: “The employee hides it, the employer ignores it, or when it does come to the surface, t

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