Decision Guide 05
Is your current support keeping up with your workforce?
Compare workforce needs with your current EAP or mental health benefit, identify where visibility or support may be falling short, and generate questions to take to your vendor.
What you'll get: a fit view across seven areas, blind spots to check, questions for your vendor, and a renewal timeline. Every question is optional.
About 10 minutes
About this guide
- What it looks at
- Whether your current mental health support fits the shape and reality of your workforce.
- The question it answers
- Is your support keeping up with what your employees actually experience, and where are the gaps?
- What you'll get
- An evaluation across six areas, with the specific questions to ask any provider and what a good answer sounds like.
- What it uses
- Your workforce's schedules, locations, and languages, the signals you're seeing, and the support you have in place today. Your answers stay in your browser.
Step 1 of 4
Tell us a little about your workforce
The research behind this guide
Report · Benefits strategy
The Third Model
How the mental health benefits category has tried two pricing models, and what a third model resolves.
8 min readReport · AI in mental health
The 5am Signal
What the time employees seek mental health support tells us about how benefits should be designed.
8 min readReport · Mental health at work
The stress your team can't name
Cumulative, non-acute stress rarely becomes a case, so existing benefits miss it, and managers are carrying most of it.
7 min readDecision Guide · Benefits strategy
The benefit exists. Why aren't people using it?
Measure your reach gap and leave with a defensible renewal or budget decision.
5 min guideSources & method
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing, behavioral health access research
- General Hospital Psychiatry, psychiatrist appointment availability study (2023)
- The Third Model, The 5am Signal, and The Stress Your Team Can't Name (Thoughtful Research)
The evaluator uses only the answers entered in the browser to organize areas for discussion. It is not a vendor rating or a diagnosis. Answers are not sent anywhere unless the reader chooses a sharing action.
Figures are cited inline beside each statistic throughout the report.
Thoughtful Reports
Explore what better support
could look like.
Talk through what your stress test surfaced and the questions worth answering next.
What would be most useful?
Step 1 of 2
What would be most useful right now?
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