Key Insights
- 79% of education staff report work-related stress as a significant issue
- Education has the highest burnout rate of any public sector profession
- 1 in 3 teachers consider leaving the profession due to workload pressure
- Staff absence costs UK schools an estimated £2.5bn per year
Source: 2024 UK Higher Education Wellbeing Study
The reality of academic wellbeing
Teaching and support staff carry an invisible load. The emotional labour of the role, the administrative pressure, the constant context-switching between students, colleagues and systems. It accumulates in ways that standard wellbeing initiatives rarely address.
Most school wellbeing provision focuses on students. Staff are expected to be resilient by default. When support does exist, it tends to be reactive rather than recovery built into the working week.
What staff actually need is something that works with the rhythm of the day. Brief, accessible, physically restorative and easy to take up without stigma.
Recovery is a growing part of modern employee wellbeing. Marked Present is a wellbeing experience combining group effective breathwork to destress and energise the team followed by 10 - 15 minute structured acupressure chair massage. Creating a rapid hands-on recovery option to your team that is discreet and works around your meetings and schedule.
Why it works
Acupressure chair massage works because it targets the places where desk-based work builds up tension, the neck, shoulders, upper back, arms and hands, using firm, focused pressure on specific points.
In the acupressure tradition, this is also about encouraging energy to move freely, so a session often leaves people feeling lighter, calmer and more alert, not just looser.
It's also easy to take up. Sessions last 10–15 minutes, are done fully clothed in a simple portable chair, and need no oils, changing or prep, so people can step away from their screens, have a reset and be back at their desks refreshed, without disrupting the day.
10–15 min
Sessions that fit inside a break or free period
Fully clothed
No oils, no changing, no prep required
Portable chair
Fits in any staffroom, office or quiet corner
Immediate effect
Back at your desk refreshed, not disrupted
