I have updated Integration Training's stress management research page.
From the HSE Stress Research:
"Why tackle work-related stress?
To reduce sickness absence
- Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health and this is on the increase.
- 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
- Mental health problems (most of which are stress related) cost employers an average of £600 per employee per year - 2009 figure)
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
- Organisational image and reputation..."
