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The impact of leadership quality in American workplaces

TELUS Mental Health Barometer 2026

The 2026 TELUS Mental Health Barometer provides evidence-based findings, actions and insights to help you reshape your organization's wellbeing strategy. Drawing from the 2025 TELUS Mental Health Index (MHI) reports, each surveying 5,000 American workers, it offers leaders a clear picture of workplace challenges over time and how to address them.

Key trends and findings

Leadership wellbeing directly impacts organizational performance

  • Just over half of people leaders feel equipped to address employee mental health issues.
  • Only 68 percent of workers rate their managers as "strongly humane", and workers who rate their managers as "weak" in humanity have mental health scores more than six times below the national average.

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

  • Women are more likely than men to rate employer support for wellbeing as poor.
  • Workers under 40 are nearly 80 percent more likely to report job insecurity as a source of work stress.

Inadequate support and communication gaps can erode mental health and wellbeing

  • 36 percent of workers say their employer doesn't offer an employee assistance program (EAP). A further 27 percent are unsure.
  • 20 percent of workers say they didn't know where to get help or how to access support.

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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