Support your people through separation
Separation can affect an employee’s wellbeing, concentration and ability to manage everyday responsibilities.
Give your people access to confidential, coordinated support—through a trusted referral, a contribution towards costs or fully funded assistance.
Give your employees a head start
Separation is one of life’s most significant transitions. An employee may still arrive at work each day while managing parenting arrangements, housing, finances, professional appointments, difficult communication and uncertainty about the future.
Family.Reimagined gives employees one point of contact, a clear roadmap and coordinated support through the practical, parenting, financial and wellbeing aspects of separation, with independent legal advice available where required.
Earlier support can help employees understand what needs to happen, organise the different parts of their separation and spend less time trying to navigate disconnected services by themselves.
98,000
Australian adults formally divorced in 2025—based on 49,148 divorces granted during the year.
The global scale of family separation
1.34 million +
American adults formally divorced in 2023—based on 672,502 divorces recorded across 45 reporting states and Washington DC.
210,000
Adults formally divorced in England and Wales in 2025—based on 105,002 divorces granted during the year.
Note: These figures only count adults whose legal divorces were completed. They do not include couples ending de facto or unmarried relationships, or married couples who have separated but not yet divorced.
Sources:
Australian Bureau of Statistics: Marriages and Divorces, Australia
US CDC: Marriage and Divorce Statistics
UK Office for National Statistics: Divorces and Dissolution
What the research tells us
A peer-reviewed study published in Personnel Psychology, After the break-up: How divorcing affects individuals at work, examined the relationship between divorce and workplace outcomes through two separate studies.
Study 1: Comparing employees at different stages
The first study involved 542 employed participants, including people currently divorcing, people divorced within the previous five years, people divorced more than five years earlier and people who had never divorced.
Among the participants currently divorcing:
43.8% agreed or strongly agreed that divorce was negatively affecting their work.
They reported more negative moods at work.
They reported poorer health and lower job performance than several comparison groups.
Intrusive thoughts, emotional distress, exhaustion and reduced focus were common themes.
38.8% also identified some positive effect on their work, including renewed motivation or directing more time and energy towards their career.
The findings show that separation does not affect every employee in the same way. However, almost half of the employees actively divorcing felt that it was negatively affecting their work.
Study 2: Following employees through the process
The second study followed a new group of employees who were going through divorce. It began with 281 participants, with workplace outcomes assessed during the divorce process and again one year later.
The study found:
57.1% said divorce was negatively affecting their work.
Divorce-related grief was associated with lower cognitive engagement, physical engagement, job performance and health.
Concerns about future financial stability were connected to the level of grief and workplace impact.
Participants generally experienced improvements in engagement, job performance and health after their divorces were completed.
This suggests that the period of uncertainty and unresolved change can be particularly demanding—and that outcomes may improve as people regain clarity, stability and a sense of direction.
Additional workplace research
A 2021 UK workplace survey gathered responses from employees across 133 workplaces who had experienced divorce or relationship separation.
It found:
79% said separation or divorce affected their ability to work.
60% experienced anxiety, depression or stress in the workplace.
39% reported decreased productivity.
23% took sick or unpaid leave.
15% reported making more mistakes or being involved in workplace accidents.
Almost one in ten left their employer within the year following their separation.
This was an industry survey rather than a peer-reviewed academic study, so its findings should be treated as indicative rather than a definitive measure of the entire workforce. It nevertheless provides useful insight into how employees themselves describe the workplace impact of separation.
Ways your organisation can help
Provide a trusted referral pathway
Make Family.Reimagined available as a confidential support option for employees experiencing separation.
Contribute towards the cost
Offer an agreed subsidy, wellbeing allowance or fixed contribution towards an employee’s support.
Fund the service entirely
Fund an agreed level of coordinated support for an eligible employee.
We can tailor the arrangement to suit your organisation, workforce, existing wellbeing services and available budget.
A practical response to a significant life event
Supporting an employee through separation is not about involving the employer in their private family decisions.
It is about recognising that a major life transition can affect wellbeing, attendance, concentration and performance—and giving the employee somewhere appropriate to turn before the situation becomes more overwhelming, expensive or prolonged.
Family.Reimagined provides a clearer starting point, one coordinated process and practical support to help the employee move forward.
Support your people when it matters most
Talk to us about creating a confidential referral, subsidy or funded-support arrangement for your organisation.