COVID-19 revealed that people really do bring their whole selves to work — and employers aren’t prepared. As the Headspace for Work 2020 Mental Health Trends Report shows, many more people in the workforce need extra resources to support a wide range of mental health concerns — on the job and at home. Based on this survey of over 2,500 employed adults working in several industries across the United States and the United Kingdom, this report makes it abundantly clear that in the age of COVID-19: • There’s a gap between employee expectations for mental health support and what companies actually offer. • People are just starting to recognize the importance of well-rounded mental health support — compared with check-the-box EPA programs and other types of old-school benefits. • The line between work stress and life stress has been dissolved. Stress in any area of someone’s life contributes to, or is exacerbated by, stress at work. And when you break these findings down by generation or gender, you’ll find differences in the degree of mental health symptoms and diagnoses, use of mental health tools, and feelings about access to workplace mental health resources. The survey was completed between April 5 and May 5, 2020, by 2,500 employed adults in the United States and the United Kingdom. They represent more than 20 industries, and were just about evenly split between men and women, and 2% who were non-binary.

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