The Real Employee Wellbeing Survey
What employees actually think about wellbeing at work, in their own words. Not sanitised. Not filtered, but real
56%
respondents are stressed most days.
54%
feel disengaged or “switched off” from their work every single week.
82%
rarely or never use their company's wellbeing resources
There are plenty of big reports. This isn't one of them.
Gallup, CIPD, HSE - the national data is out there. We know employee wellbeing is in crisis. But knowing it nationally and feeling it in a room full of your own people are very different things.
I created this survey because I kept having the same conversation with HR leads and managers: "We know there's a problem. We just can't get traction on it."
This report is designed to change that. It puts words to what employees are experiencing, and gives the people who want to help something concrete to point to.
This is Year One. The sample is small. But every conversation worth having had to start somewhere.
I've spent years working with individuals who are burning out, disengaging, and quietly leaving jobs they should love. The patterns are consistent. The causes are consistent. What's been missing is the evidence to take into the rooms where the decisions get made. This report is that evidence. Use it.
Five themes. Real voices. Actionable insight.
Stress & Workload
How frequently employees experience stress and what's driving it.
Disengagement
How often people are going through the motions and what they say about it.
Wellbeing Offerings
What employees actually think of the support their employer provides.
Manager Support
The impact managers can have on their teams - in a good and bad way.
The real cost to business retention. With 52% of absence connected to poor mental health
A WORD ABOUT THE DATA:
Yes, it's a small sample. That's the point.
39 responses is not a nationally representative study. We're not pretending it is. What it is, is a genuine first look. 39 people who took the time to say what they actually think, without a corporate filter.
The themes that emerge here are consistent with every major piece of wellbeing research published in the last five years; from Gallup's global engagement data to CIPD's UK workforce reports.
The difference is the texture. You'll hear it in the quotes.
Respondents came from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Ireland and the Netherlands, different contexts, remarkably similar experiences.
This is Year One. The goal isn't to be the biggest data set, it's to be the most honest one. And to grow, year on year, into a benchmark that organisations can actually use.
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