Report: Mental Health and Wellbeing: FTSE 100 Report 2017 

Soma Analytics' report tries to evaluate the hypothesis that a healthier workforce is a more productive one. It is based on a semantic analysis of all the annual reports published by FTSE 100 companies in the past year.

Key findings:

• Companies that address employee mental health and wellbeing in their 2016 annual reports enjoyed up to three times more profit.
• One in three FTSE 100 companies do not mention wellbeing in their 2016 annual report, and almost three in four do not mention mental health at all.
• This report also finds a statistically significant positive correlation between mentions of wellbeing and a company's earnings before tax.
• The industries that focus most on wellbeing are the utilities and pharmaceuticals sectors. The media, construction and services sectors focussed least on wellbeing.

Soma undertook its analysis by looked for references to employee mental health and wellbeing in FTSE 100 annual reports. Results were clustered by company size, revenue and industry as well as by Glassdoor rating. A statistical analysis of variance between mental health and wellbeing count and company profitability was also undertaken.