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Thirty per cent of teams are unhealthy, according to a new report from Atlassian. It’s time organisations stopped trying to tackle wellbeing from an organisational perspective. We need to think on a team level. The wellbeing of teams across the globe is quite shocking, according to a new report from Atlassian. Thirty per cent of respondents indicated that their teams were unhealthy – meaning they felt they didn’t connect with each other and that they couldn’t express themselves, among other things – and 54 per cent said they were only ‘partially healthy’. Only 17 per cent reported having mentally healthy teams. These less-than-ideal climates that teams are operating in also impact performance, with 57 per cent reporting that their teams weren’t operating efficiently – 12 per cent indicated they’d let stakeholders down as a result. In-person teams were the least healthy, with only 15 per cent of office-based teams identifying as healthy. Hybrid teams were the healthiest (20 per cent), followed by remote teams (18 per cent). (See graph below). It’s interesting that in-person teams were the unhealthiest considering that Atlassian found that poor connection and alignment was the biggest indicator of an unhealthy team. This suggests that where people