Nearly one-third of workers scored 50 or below on the mental health scale, indicating a concerning national trend as the results are beginning to enter "distressed" levels (0 to 49 points).

TELUS Health released its TELUS Mental Health Index for the month of September 2024, examining the mental health of employed people in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Europe. The report on Singapore revealed that the country’s workforce is facing an increasing mental health crisis, threatening productivity and physical health.

In fact, the mental health score stands at 61.6, dropping by 1.3 points from the last study in April 2024 (62.9 points). This marks the first significant decline since the start of the study in April 2022.

In other regions/markets surveyed, the mental health scores of workers for September 2024 are as follows:Australia: 61.1New Zealand: 59.7United Kingdom: 64.6 Europe: 61.6United States: 70.6Canada: 64.4

Further details of the report show that 41% of workers have high mental health risk, 42% have moderate risk and 17% have low risk. Within the span of over two years since the launch of the Index, the percentage of high mental risk workers has increased by 2%. Additionally, all mental health sub-scores namely work productivity, anxiety, isolation, depression and financial risk have declined since the last index report in April 2024. Overall, mental health score of managers remain to be higher than non-manager workers while labourers have been identified to have a lower mental health score than service industry and office workers.

Nearly one-third of workers surveyed scored 50 or below on the mental health scale, indicating a concerning national trend as the results are beginning to enter "distressed" levels (0 to 49 points). The productivity loss of this group is nearly three times the number of lost workdays as 8% of workers with a mental health scores higher than 90.

In terms of diet, less than half of workers are reported to adhere to a healthy diet with a larger portion of them belonging to a younger group of workers. The health score for this group of workers is reported to have 17 points lower in mental health scoring as compared to the group of workers who stick to a healthy diet. Workers...