Anonymous access to the trained Mental Health First Aiders you already have — how it works for your people, what it shows you, and what it costs against the cost of waiting.
Construction concentrates the pressures — long hours, insecure work, time away from home, and a culture that prizes getting on with it. But the defining feature of the problem is that it does not show. The loudest laugh in the cabin can be three months behind on the mortgage and awake until four. The quiet one in the van is often fine.
Supervisors are routinely told to "spot the signs". In practice, their mates can't tell, their gaffer can't tell, and their trained Mental Health First Aider can't tell either — because there is nothing reliable to spot. Any approach built on noticing who is struggling starts from a losing position. The approach that works starts somewhere else: remove the reason people stay silent.
Most firms already provide routes to help. Walk each one as a worker, and the same toll gate appears at every door.
The person who rates their work now knows they're not coping. On short contracts, that feels like a mark against the next job. Most people turn back here.
A poster in the welfare cabin, a call centre, a case reference. It asks for their details before it asks how they are. Across most workforces, usage sits in low single digits.
It goes on a record, and everyone knows it goes on a record. In a sector built on being seen as reliable, a record feels like a risk.
Trained, willing, ready to listen. And they know their name, their gaffer, their site. So the knock on the door never comes.
EasierAsk gives every person in your workforce a door to your trained MHFAiders that costs nothing to walk through.
No sign-up, no name, no employee number. The first screen is a person, not a form.
A real, trained colleague from their own company. The MHFAider never learns who they're talking to; the worker can say the things they'd never say face to face.
Samaritans, NHS 111 and text support are signposted throughout — help never sits behind the conversation, and never behind a paywall.
No case file, no HR entry, no name stored against a conversation. They can come back to the same thread tomorrow, still anonymous.
The people you would never pick as struggling are exactly the ones who use it. That is the point: a door that does not require being noticed, approached by the people nobody notices.
Anonymity for them does not mean darkness for you. It means you finally see the shape of the problem — early enough to act on it.
Your dashboard shows aggregate signal only: how many conversations are happening, what proportion of the workforce has opened the door, and which themes are rising — never words, never names.
Illustrative theme mix
An early signal — fatigue mentions rising three weeks running — arrives as a rota conversation in February instead of an absence record in June or an incident investigation in September.
If your firm has trained Mental Health First Aiders, you have already made the right investment. What failed is the last ten metres.
A two-day MHFA England course plus two days off the tools comes to roughly £700 per trained head. Most firms then discover the pattern the whole sector reports: trained, willing responders whom nobody approaches — because on a site where everyone knows everyone, walking over to the MHFAider means being seen to need them. The badge becomes part of the furniture. Not because the MHFAiders stopped caring; because nobody came.
EasierAsk activates that investment. Every trained MHFAider becomes reachable by every worker, anonymously, from day one. Same people, same training, same site — with the name removed from the transaction. The help you already own, finally in reach.
| Riverside (no change) | Hillcrest (EasierAsk) | |
|---|---|---|
| Absence (£180/day) | £16,560 | £9,900 |
| Replacing leavers (£5,000 each) | £20,000 | £5,000 |
| Fatigue incident investigation | £8,000 | — |
| EasierAsk annual licence | — | £3,000 |
| The year | £44,560 | £17,900 |
On one site of sixty people, in one year, with the licence already counted against it. EasierAsk is sold as an annual licence banded by employee headcount — £3,000 a year up to 99 employees, rising by band, and negotiated above 5,000. Workers never pay: there is no paywall in front of help. The model above is an illustration built on sector-informed assumptions (one-in-four annual prevalence; £180 per absence day; £5,000 to replace a leaver), not a guarantee of outcomes. Run it on your own headcount at easierask.co.uk/two-sites.
Your MHFAiders keep the exact escalation routes they were trained on, and crisis services are signposted directly inside every conversation. Anonymity protects the person asking — it never stops anyone getting someone real help. The safeguarding question is usually the board's blocker; this is the answer that clears it.
The fastest way to understand EasierAsk is to feel it. No sign-up:
Meet a crew of eight and try to pick who's struggling.
easierask.co.uk/cant-tell
Walk In Their BootsBe the worker asking for help, then flip to the employer view.
easierask.co.uk/their-boots
Sixteen HoursLive a year as the MHFAider nobody approaches.
easierask.co.uk/sixteen-hours
The Silent WorkforceYour workforce as dots — and the people no route reaches.
easierask.co.uk/silent-workforce
Two SitesDrag two identical sites through a year and watch them diverge.
easierask.co.uk/two-sites
The Hard SellRehearse the finance director meeting and leave with the business case written.
easierask.co.uk/hard-sell
The Workplace Support ExperienceTen minutes trying to find help in a workplace. Time yourself.
easierask.co.uk/workplace-support
Explore Your WorkplaceWalk your own floor as the person responsible for it, and meet the eight who never asked.
easierask.co.uk/your-workplace
Twenty minutes, your numbers, both sides of the platform.
Figures in this pack are sector-level illustrations informed by published UK research (ONS, Mind, CIPD, Mates in Mind); they describe the sector, not a diagnosis of your workforce. EasierAsk is not an emergency service. If any of this is close to home: Samaritans, 116 123, free, any time.