It's time to take a fresh look
Evaluate your workforce mental wellness resources
Employees want more mental health support, for themselves and their families. But a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t enough: Employee mental wellness support needs to be unique and precise to each person who seeks it. Do your current efforts meet the growing need?
Improving employee mental health is very important to 65% of employers, and roughly the same amount (62%) say expanding the use of mental and emotional health services is just as important.¹
Can employees receive care in a timely manner?
The national average length of time between a client’s first outreach or referral until their first mental health or substance use appointment is 48 days.2
Does the care provided extend to family members?
About 46% of parents worry about their child’s mental health—and for half of them, that concern directly impacts their work performance.3
Is the process of receiving care too challenging?
43% of insured US adults who describe their mental health as fair or poor said there was a time in the past year when they needed mental health services or medication but did not get them. Among adults who did not receive needed mental health care: 44% said they couldn’t find a provider, 36% said they didn’t know how to find care, and 34% said they were afraid or embarrassed to seek care.⁴
Does your offering affect performance and productivity?
Between 2019 and 2024, there was an increase of approximately 50% in mental health-related short-term disability claims.5
Fine-tune your answers
Our Workforce Mental Wellness Scorecard can help
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Average of two days to see a provider vs. 48-day national average6
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Three times more diverse than the average network 7,8
1 Guardian Workplace Benefits Study, 14th Annual, 2025
2 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Impact Report, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Published: June 3, 2024 Updated: April 24, 2025, https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/24.06.3_2024-CCBHC-Impact-Report_FINAL.pdf.pdf
3 Deloitte (May 3, 2024). Mental health and employers: The case for employers to invest in supporting working parents and a mentally healthy workplace, https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/services/consulting/research/mental-health-and-employers-the-case-for-employers-to-invest-in-supporting-working-parents-and-a-mentally-health-workplace.html
4 Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Drew Altman, The Twin Problems of Mental Health Care: Access and Affordability, December 10, 2024. https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/the-twin-problems-of-mental-health-care-access-and-affordability/
5 Based on Guardian internal short term disability analysis of mental/nervous claims between 2019 and 2024. This data only includes Guardian’s short-term disability claims, and does not include claims data from other coverage sources like Spring Health.
6 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Impact Report, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Published: June 3, 2024 Updated: April 24, 2025, https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/24.06.3_2024-CCBHC-Impact-Report_FINAL.pdf.pdf
7 Spring Health provider ops, Q4 2024
8 American Psychological Association, (2022), Demographics of U.S. Psychology Workforce [Interactive data tool], www.apa.org/workforce/data-tools/demographics
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