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THOUGHTFUL REPORTS

Reinventing
mental healthcare.
At work.

A serial research project from the team at Thoughtful and our partners at Spring Health examining the intersection of mental health and technology, deep diving into the realities of today's workforce and sharing our findings and methods as we reinvent mental healthcare delivery.

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The Collection · Seven Reports

2026
No. 07Workforce Mental Health · 2026

The stress your team can't name.

Cumulative, non-acute stress is the hardest pressure to lead through. It rarely becomes a case, so existing benefits miss it — and managers are carrying most of it.

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Key FindingsWorkforce Mental Health · 2026
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Average direct reports per manager, a nearly 50% increase since 2013
22%
Manager engagement in 2025, down from 31% in 2022
54%
Of Americans in their 40s are caring for both a parent 65+ and a child or adult child

Methodology

How we research.

Editorially independent. Primary-sourced. Designed to be useful to the people actually shaping benefits — not to sell you something.

Primary Sources

Every figure ties to a citation — Aflac, NAMI/Ipsos, KFF, BLS, Modern Health, Spring Health internal data. No anonymous statistics.

Cross-Industry

Findings span healthcare, finance, technology, manufacturing, and distributed remote workforces in 14 countries.

Independent

Reports are produced editorially. No vendor sponsorship, no gated thought-leadership trades.

Updated Annually

Each report is re-baselined against the prior year's data so trend lines remain comparable across editions.