# Why the Burnout Headlines are a RISEUP@work Tailwind | RISEUP AT WORK LLC

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- Published at: 2026-07-11 13:36:22 UTC
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## Author
Dr. Deepak Bhootra

## Subject
RISEUP AT WORK

## Content
A Bloomberg Businessweek story this week put a number on something we built the company around. Sixty-seven percent of US employers now report a rise in mental-health leaves of absence, seventy-four percent among large employers. Gallup pegs the cost of poor mental health at $47.6 billion a year in lost productivity, roughly $340 for every missed workday. In one in six organizations, mental-health leaves jumped twenty-five percent or more in a single year.Here is what an investor should see in that. Every dollar in those figures is being spent downstream, after the collapse. Companies are hiring temp replacements, expanding therapy benefits, and adding on-site counselors, all to manage a crisis that has already happened. The article's own proposed fix is to address issues before they lead to prolonged leave. That upstream sentence is precisely where RISEUP operates.The people breaking down are disproportionately early in their careers, the exact cohort disengaging fastest and carrying the least self-awareness about why a role no longer fits. They imprint on the wrong environment, cannot name the mismatch, and act only when their health forces them to. RISEUP gives them a diagnostic instrument, our RISEUP Clarity assessment, that surfaces the misalignment early, when it is still cheap to correct, instead of years later as an autopsy.The incumbent named in that article automates leave paperwork. We reduce the leave. That is the difference between managing the symptom and addressing the cause, and it is a market measured in tens of billions.The burnout economy is validating our thesis in real time. This is the moment to build the preventive layer.Source: Mental Health Leave Is Rising as More US Workers Take FMLA Time Off, BloombergRISEUP@work is raising its community round on Wefunder while it is live. You can own a share of what we are building at wefunder.com/riseupatwork. Please help spread the word.