Employers have long approached workforce productivity with direct resources, including digital tools and training courses. However, growing evidence suggests that a more foundational productivity blocker has been overlooked: employees’ emotions. Human emotions are a key factor in employees’ output. Stress, sadness, loneliness, and more can interfere with any workflow, often even to a greater degree than outdated software or an imperfect team dynamic. Large employers are at the forefront of acknowledging and acting on this reality. One way a number of the country’s largest employers are addressing emotional roadblocks to productivity in a highly cost-effective way is through anonymous peer-to-peer support.