Long-term sick leave for stress and mental illness could perhaps be greatly reduced with wage subsidy employment for people at risk of burnout.
What would actually be required to reduce long-term sick leave would be to expand the public sector in order to create a labor shortage so that employers were forced to compete with good conditions. But maybe no one will agree to that.
An alternative would be if AF could get better at analyzing whether a job-seeker's confusion due to long unemployment or after employment could be due to incipient burnout. If, in this way, AF could catch stressed unemployed people in time, the stressed people could perhaps avoid long-term sick leave by getting a wage subsidy job and the right to SIUS (support employment agency). This would benefit society not only through reduced healthcare and medical costs, but also through the fact that the drop in production during a person's stress-sensitive period could perhaps be reduced.
Those who get stressed to the point of burnout are often the employees who take their job very seriously. Shouldn't society have a lot to gain by keeping these people employed as long as possible?