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The impact of leadership quality in British workplaces

TELUS Mental Health Barometer 2026

The 2026 TELUS Mental Health Barometer provides evidence-based findings, actions and insights to help you reshape your organisation's wellbeing strategy. Drawing from the 2025 TELUS Mental Health Index (MHI) reports, each surveying 2,000 people living in the United Kingdom, it offers leaders a clear picture of workplace challenges over time and how to address them.

Key trends and findings

Leadership wellbeing directly impacts organisational performance

  • Two in five people leaders do not feel equipped to address employee mental health issues.
  • Only 64 per cent of workers rate their managers as "strongly humane", and workers who rate their managers as "weak" in humanity are more than five times likely to have experienced a decline in support for work-life balance.

Women and younger workers face unique challenges, posing a risk to leadership pipeline

  • Women are 40 per cent more likely than men to feel financially vulnerable.
  • Workers under 40 are twice as likely as workers over 50 to report a lack of work-life balance as a source of work stress.

Inadequate support and communication gaps can erode mental health and wellbeing

  • 34 per cent of workers say their employer doesn't offer an employee assistance program (EAP). A further 31 per cent are unsure.
  • 18 per cent of workers say poor communication is a source of work stress.

Insights 

How to promote wellbeing at work

Learn strategies to enhance employee support and foster a trust-based workplace culture, addressing the specific needs of the different generations and genders.

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Discover how end-to-end care improves wellbeing, strengthens retention and builds resilience across your organisation.

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