Employee Benefits poll: More than half (51.7%) of employers said they offer support through employee assistance programmes or other related benefits in order to help their staff dealing with stress.
According to a survey of Employee Benefits readers, 31% of respondents said they offer dedicated mental health and wellbeing support to help their staff dealing with stress.
Meanwhile, 7% said they do not offer anything to support their staff with stress and 10.3% said they were unsure of what they do.
In January, Employee Benefits reported that Britain is experiencing a growing crisis of work‑related stress, according to new Trades Union Congress (TUC) findings.
Four in five union representatives identified stress as one of the most pressing issues facing workers.
Stress was reported as the leading concern across every region and nearly all sectors, with particularly high levels in central government (80%), local government (66%), health (68%), education (74%) and the voluntary sector (71%).
Paul Nowak, general secretary at TUC, said: “These findings expose a growing national crisis. Stress is now entrenched as the biggest health and safety issue facing working people, and the situation is getting worse. No worker should find themselves lying awake at night from stress.
“But too many employers are ignoring the law, failing to assess stress risks, and piling impossible workloads onto staff. Workers are burning out, and they are paying with their health. Employers and managers need to do more to identify and reduce risks and to provide support to employees struggling to cope.”
Furthermore, 70% of UK adults reported weekly stress primarily due to financial strain, according to December 2025 research by Cigna Healthcare.
