# WORKPLACE WELLBEING – SURVEY FINDS BRITISH WORKERS LEFT UNSUPPORTED
Published: 2022-10-11
Category: Opinion
Category URL: https://brandsjournal.com/category/opinion/
Meta Title: New Study Reveals Mental Health Challenges in UK Workforce
Meta Description: Discover the latest insights on the worsening mental health, breakdown in trust, and the need for support among UK employees and managers. Learn about the impor
URL: https://brandsjournal.com/workplace-wellbeing-survey-finds-british-workers-left-unsupported/

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Training and coaching experts [PUSH Mind and Body](https://www.pushmindandbody.com/) launch new research to mark **World Mental Health Day** – having polled a total of 1,360 C-suite leaders, middle managers and junior employees at businesses across the UK.

**Key findings**

Worsening mental health:

- More than three-quarters of managers polled (78%) reveal their team has faced stress or burnout in recent years.

- 43% of managers polled said they’re seeing rising anxiety among employees.

Breakdown in trust:

- Nearly half of managers (47%) say their team has faced either a “communication breakdown” or “worsening relationships” in recent years.

- The majority of UK employees (62%) either “don’t trust their manager” or only trust them “somewhat”.

- More than half of all managers (56%) “do not” or only “somewhat” trust their team to manage workloads and time from home.

- 1 in 5 employees say their manager “doesn’t get the best out of me”, and of those individuals, 89% say their manager “only cares about their own career” or “doesn’t make any effort”.

Needing support:

- 56% of employees now claim that self-care is more important to them than work, a figure that has more than doubled since 2020.

- 76% of UK employees say hybrid working would work better if companies offered “advice on how to switch off” (29%), burnout support (27%) and “strategies on how to deal with loneliness” (20%).

- 87% of UK employees say hybrid working would work better if companies offered “better communication” (36%), “clearer boundary setting” (28%) and “stronger relationship building” (23%).

**Cate Murden, Founder and CEO at PUSH Mind and Body**, said: “Our findings demonstrate in no uncertain terms that employee wellbeing and mental health have worsened since the pandemic. Trust is breaking down between employees and managers, which is having a big impact on organisational effectiveness. Both of these groups don’t believe that employers and c-suite executives are doing enough to safeguard mental health and provide them with the support needed to excel. This is culminating in hugely disengaged workforces.

The answer lies in having a genuine and empathetic understanding of how the people in a business are feeling and using this insight to create and maintain a working culture and environment that makes employees feel safe.

If you want to change the way people are feeling, create a space where they feel able to talk openly and encourage this behaviour to take place regularly. Safe spaces are not about creating a physical space, but rather a culture where employees can show up authentically and speak up in psychologically safe environments – promoting positive mental health for all.”


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