Corporate
Consulting Psychotherapist
Onsite Consulting Psychotherapist
The business case for embedded workplace mental health support. Workplace stress, anxiety and burnout are now the leading drivers of lost productivity, sickness absence and staff turnover in the UK. The statistics below make the case for proactive, onsite therapeutic support for staff and management alike.
The Scale of the Problem
63%
63% of UK employees show at least one characteristic of burnout — exhaustion, mental distance from work, or declining performance — up from 51% in 2021 (Deloitte).
91%
91% of UK adults report experiencing high or extreme stress, a rate that has held steady for three consecutive years (MHFA England).
41%
Mental ill health is now the leading cause of long-term workplace absence, accounting for 41% of cases (CIPD, 2025).
Cost & Productivity Impact
22.1 million
22.1 million working days were lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2024/25 — 62% of all days lost to ill health, averaging 16.4 days per affected worker (HSE).
9.4 sick days
9.4 sick days per employee on average in 2024 — the highest figure recorded since CIPD began tracking in 2010, up from 5.8 days pre-pandemic.
£51-61 billion
£51–56 billion a year is the cost of poor mental health to UK employers, split roughly: presenteeism £24–28bn, turnover £22bn, absenteeism £6bn (Deloitte).
The Support Gap
32%
Only 32% of UK workplaces have a formal plan to identify chronic stress and prevent burnout — leaving the large majority of staff unsupported (CIPD / MHFA England).
39%
39% of workers aged 18–24 took time off for stress-related poor mental health, nearly double the 20% rate across all workers.
Return on Investment
£4.70 for £1
£4.70 is returned for every £1 employers invest in workplace mental health support, through reduced absence, presenteeism and turnover (Deloitte).
References
Deloitte UK, Mental health and employers: the case for investment (2024/2025 update) — deloitte.com/uk
MHFA England, Key workplace mental health statistics for 2026 — mhfaengland.org
CIPD, Health and Wellbeing at Work Survey Report (September 2025) — cipd.org
Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Work-related stress, depression or anxiety statistics in Great Britain, 2024/25 — hse.gov.uk
Mental Health UK, Burnout Report 2026 — mentalhealth-uk.org
Mind, Mental health facts and statistics — mind.org.uk
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