Firms 'must offer stress management training'
Businesses need to offer stress management training courses to their staff to help them understand where stress comes from and how it can be tackled, Business Link has said.
Chris Simpson, an adviser at the government's support service, said that promoting healthy living and counselling were other steps firms could take to reduce workers' stress levels.
"Obviously stress can come from a number of areas such as heavy workloads and also a lack of control," he added.
"There is a lot of pressure in regards to the potential loss of jobs, and all the managers and the senior managers need to obviously deal with that and really have more awareness of what their employees are feeling."
Figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that businesses lost 13.5 million days to work-related stress last year. The organisation has now launched a new website on stress management, offering advice and support to employers on dealing with workplace stress.
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A useful article showing that the workplace is a factor in causing stress amongst worker.
The other timely point you made of job insecurity and employees striving for perfection and working extra hours in these times of financial gloom.
I think it is very important for firms to recognise those workers who are putting in extra effort to secure their mutual futures - otherwise, the only outcome will be for workplace stress to worsen.
The fact that companies are having to offer stress management training is perhaps slightly worrying in itself - (and may not be something they'll be slapping on their recruitment drive prospectuses) but I think It's a great step in the right direction - and further efforts to improve the welfare of workers in such a way should be lauded.
I would guess that "stress within the workplace" has increased as a result of the current economic climate and organisations will now be reluctant to spent time and money training staff to deal with stress at the cost of opportunities, leading to staff being absent or leaving the organisation.
It must become a vicious circle fairly quickly yet that initial investment could save so much.
Just to be controversial - as if! :-) I would like to pose the question of whether there is more stress in the workplace or is it the lack of ability or willingness to cope with it?
Are the terms and conditions today that much worse than years ago? What is that has changed that is causing all this stress?
With reference to healthy living is the more sedentary lifestyle, particularly at work, but also in the way in which we tend not to walk much and sit still for most of the day a large contributory factor?
How much of the stress is down to lifestyle issues like all the marketing that creates the desire to earn enough money to buy all the latest gadgets, holidays etc rather than contentment with the level that we are already at - e.g. a TV that works perfectly well but may not be a 42" plasma, a mobile phone that may be more than a year old etc.
The whole issue of stress and causes is a big topic - hopefully some of these comments will prompt some responses and open the topic up a bit more!
Yeah i would resemble to add two more possessions under stress of an separable.There might be a personal stress and also family issues.sometimes these issues also create lots of gap in their work environment.And i do agree with all the possibilities of the stress in the above post which you have commented.Different people have different views on the stress management.I do have my own wish of ideas.Any ways good to have short and cute post but it conveys huge.
Most of us readily acknowledge that stress is an inescapable part of life in our modern society. It's in the home, the schools, and the workplace. Workplace stress management is becoming a buzz word of sorts, as more companies seek ways to cope with workplace stress.There are quite a lot of ways you can reduce stress at the workplace. Here are some of the things you should do if you want to reduce the stress you are experiencing.
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