2025 State of Employee Mental Health & Productivity: The Hidden Performance Crisis in Southeast Asia's Workforce

Naluri’s latest employee mental health survey finds that more than half of employees are at high mental health risk. The impact shows up both as absenteeism—with many missing 5+ days of work a month due to poor mental and physical health—and presenteeism, with 41% showing up at reduced capacity, operating at a fraction of their potential, and quietly costing organisations in lost productivity that does not reflect in dashboards. This is the hidden performance crisis playing out across Southeast Asia's workforce today.

The 2025 State of Employee Mental Health & Productivity draws on 32,000+ survey responses across six countries to expose how stress, loneliness, and generational mental health vulnerability are combining to erode organisational output—and what business leaders can do about it.

Download this report to understand:

• The direct performance impact: how anxiety, depression, and stress independently drive low performance, high absenteeism, and presenteeism
• The loneliness multiplier: why lonely employees are 168% more likely to develop high depression and 170% more likely to face high stress
• The generational vulnerability gap: why younger employees show negative performance when mental health deteriorates, and what this means as Gen Z and Millennials become the workforce majority
• The cost of inaction: an example showing how mental health risk translates to an estimated USD 705,000 in annual productivity loss for a 2,000-person organisation
• A four-layer employer framework: practical recommendations across individual support, manager enablement, organisational design, and integrated physical-mental wellness