Editor’s Note: This is the latest in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media and entertainment industry is affecting mental health. Today: Major media companies and the resources they’re providing their employees during a tense time.

“There’s more focus on mental health in the workplace than ever before. We’ve all been dealing with a pandemic and then the aftermath,” says Jason Richmond, VP of Sales Solutions at Headspace, a popular mindfulness and meditation app that offers mental health coaching, therapy and psychiatry to enterprise customers.

“Companies are taking care of their employees’ mental health and putting it on an equal footing with their physical health,” agrees Danny Shea, Chief Brand Officer of Thrive, a platform that encourages employees to take micro-steps, such as breathing exercises, stretching or short rest breaks at work, to reduce anxiety.

Headspace and Thrive are joined by a growing group of companies and nonprofits, from Calm app to online therapy provider TalkSpace to corporate wellness platform Grokker and organizations like NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which is helping companies expand the scope of resources offered to workers as mental health needs exploded across industries during Covid. Entertainment has been hit hard again and again since the pandemic. A major byproduct of the Hollywood strikes has been a rollercoaster of unemployment. Waves of corporate layoffs continue as downsizing and mergers occur amid a messy, ongoing streaming revolution. Inflation and the highest interest rates in decades are punishing. The rise of AI is a nagging concern.