How to help workers feel better

Key sources of stress include the length of the working day (28 per cent), problems with technology (26 per cent) and concerns over job security (25 per cent), according to ADP.

First steps to helping

This points to a need for employers to reach out to their workers and ask, “Are you OK?,” says Jennifer Heaslip, corporate trainer and founder of Shared Vitality.

“Anytime that there is stress and an emergent situation, we definitely see increases in symptoms, or underlying mental health conditions, pop up. Even if we just think about it, as humans, we all experience stress at different times,” she says. Being able to check in with an employee is a good thing.”

Sometimes, when people struggle, it’s not apparent to others around them, she says.

“We don’t always pick up on our early signs of struggle, and so other people around us might see something that has been a change, and it’s OK to have that conversation and check in and see how someone’s doing.”