Fehr, RyanKaur, Ekonkar2025-08-012025-08-012025Kaur_washington_0250E_28541.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1773/53435Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2025Employee mental health is an increasing topic of conversation and concern in today’s workplace. This dissertation consists of two chapters that explore employee mental health, specifically depression, as an important determinant of both individual and relational workplace consequences. In the first chapter, I seek to understand how remote work uniquely impacts employees who are experiencing depression. Results from three studies, using both archival and online panel data, found that remote work does not uniquely hinder a depressed employee’s interpersonal well-being, but had inconsistent detrimental impacts to their intrapersonal well-being. In the second chapter, I seek to understand how the coworker of a depressed employee is perceived by another coworker when they attempt to engage in—and involve others in—social support behaviors. Across three experiments using both online panel and field data sources, results highlighted the critical role of depression stigma in determining the extent to which social support behaviors are evaluated as empathetic and appropriate. This dissertation extends an understanding of the ways in which depression as a mental health condition is consequential to both the employee experiencing the condition, as well as their coworkers and surrounding climate.application/pdfen-USnoneBusiness administrationManagementPsychologyBusiness administrationThesis