The 2026 TELUS Mental Health Barometer provides evidence-based findings, actions and insights to help you reshape your organization's wellbeing strategy.
Drawing from the 2025 TELUS Mental Health Index (MHI) reports, each surveying 3,000 Canadian workers, it offers leaders a clear picture of workplace challenges over time and how to address them.
Key trends and findings
Leadership wellbeing directly impacts organizational performance
- Fewer than half of people leaders feel equipped to address employee mental health issues.
- Only 62 per cent of workers rate their managers as "strongly humane", and workers who rate their managers as "weak" in humanity have mental health scores more than nine times below the national average.
Women and younger workers face unique challenges, posing a risk to leadership pipeline
- Women are 60 per cent more likely than men to rate employer support for wellbeing as poor.
- Workers under 40 are 60 per cent more likely to report job insecurity as a source of work stress.
Inadequate support and communication gaps can erode mental health and wellbeing
- 31 per cent of workers say their employer doesn't offer an employee assistance program (EAP). A further 24 per cent are unsure.
- 22 per cent of workers say they didn't know where to get help or how to access support.
Insights
How to promote wellbeing at work
Learn strategies to enhance employee support and foster a trust-based workplace culture, addressing the specific needs of the different generations and genders.
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