THOUGHTFUL REPORTS
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.
How the mental health benefits category has tried two pricing models — and what a third model resolves.
Mental health leaves have surged 300% since 2017. What's driving them, what they actually cost, and what prevention looks like in practice.
What the time employees seek mental health support tells us about how benefits should be designed.
Why the employees driving your business are the ones your benefits are missing — and what the data says about the cost of doing nothing.
Why most employees who need mental health support never reach it — and what the research tells us about changing that.
Why a one-size-fits-all mental health benefit serves almost no one — and what HR leaders can do about it.
Methodology
Editorially independent. Primary-sourced. Designed to be useful to the people actually shaping benefits — not to sell you something.
Every figure ties to a citation — Aflac, NAMI/Ipsos, KFF, BLS, Modern Health, Spring Health internal data. No anonymous statistics.
Findings span healthcare, finance, technology, manufacturing, and distributed remote workforces in 14 countries.
Reports are produced editorially. No vendor sponsorship, no gated thought-leadership trades.
Each report is re-baselined against the prior year's data so trend lines remain comparable across editions.