Hypothetical Workplace Mental Wellbeing Intervention Cost-Benefit Scenarios

UK-focused economic modelling data assessing costs and benefits of workplace mental wellbeing interventions. The dataset, authored by Karina Watts and last updated in April 2026, contains a series of hypothetical case studies generated by a cost-consequence model with a one-year time horizon. It compares several interventions against 'no intervention' to calculate incremental costs and cost savings per employee.

Use Cases

• Estimating net cost savings from workplace wellbeing programs based on modelled reductions in absenteeism and presenteeism.
• Conducting sensitivity analysis for economic models based on varying inputs like absenteeism, presenteeism, and staff turnover.
• Comparing the cost-effectiveness of different mental wellbeing interventions against a 'no intervention' baseline.
• Assessing the impact of intervention costs and baseline employee outcomes on the likelihood of a program being cost-saving.

Strengths

• Includes a specific modelled example showing a net cost saving of £4,207 per employee for a 50-person workplace with a £100 intervention cost.
• Model addresses multiple key business outcomes: absenteeism, presenteeism, staff turnover, and productivity.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data consists of hypothetical scenarios and model outputs, not observed real-world records.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Generated by an economic cost-consequence model developed for the study.

Time Range

Model uses a one-year time horizon.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 17:38:30; freshness should be verified.

Geography

UK (based on cost estimates and context in description).