About Stress

Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep us motivated.

But excessive pressure can lead to stress, which undermines performance,

is costly to employers and can make people ill.

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Why tackle work-related stress?

To reduce sickness absence

Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health.

Each case of work-related stress, depression or anxiety related ill health leads

 to an average of 30.2 working days lost. 

A total of 13.8 million working days were lost to work-related stress,

depression and anxiety in 2006/07

To benefit your business

As well as reducing sickness absence costs to an organisation,

tackling stress can have a positive effect on:

Employee commitment to work;

Staff performance and productivity;

Staff turnover or intention to leave;

Staff recruitment and retention;

Customer satisfaction; and

Organisational image and reputation