Workplace Wellbeing: The Ultimate Guide for UK Businesses Written by Tahira Hussain, BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and Director of Goldmark Training. Last reviewed: July 2026. Something has shifted in British working life over the past five years, and most organisations have felt it before they could name it. Nearly a million UK workers are now living with stress, depression or anxiety they say was caused or made worse by their job. That is 964,000 people in the most recent Health and Safety Executive figures, and it is a record. Between them they accounted for 22.1 million lost working days in a single year, which is more than three fifths of all working days lost to work-related ill health in Great Britain. Absence has followed the same curve. The CIPD's most recent Health and Wellbeing at Work survey put average sickness absence at 9.4 days per employee per year, up from 7.8 two years earlier and nearly two full working weeks per person. Behind those numbers sit the pressures that shape a normal Tuesday morning in a UK [...]