Brilliant Stress Management

CHAPTER 7

Manage stress

at work

I

n 2009/10, the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) esti-

mated that between 8 and 11 million working days were lost

to the UK economy due to stress. This was the largest single

cause of lost productivity. It has an economic cost of around

£1 billion and equates to 1.5 per cent of people who worked in

that year suffering from stress caused or made worse by work

at some time during those 12 months. Stress accounts for just

over 40 per cent of days lost to illness: it is a big workplace

issue.

And these gures are only the most obvious consequence

of stress. Others include increased staff turnover, with all of