Workplace Stress
Is work related stress impacting on your business?
Some of the published statistics
A Health & Safety Executive report (HSE, 1999a) estimated that work-related stress costs UK employers about £353 million to £381 million per annum (in 1995/1996 prices) and society between £3.7 to £3.8 billion. Since these calculations were done, the estimated number of days lost due to stress has more than doubled.
In 2008/09 an estimated 415 000 individuals in Britain, who worked in the last year, believed that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill, according to the Labour Force Survey.
The 2009 Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) survey indicated that around 16.7% of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful.
Estimates from the LFS indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for an estimated 11.4 million lost working days in Britain in 2008/09.
THOR surveillance data from General Practitioners indicates that 30.9% of all diagnoses of work-related ill-health are cases of mental ill-health, with an average length of sickness absence per certified case of 26.8 working days.
Occupation groups containing teachers, nurses, and housing and welfare officers, customer service workers, and certain professional and managerial groups have high prevalence rates of self-reported work-related stress according to the LFS. The LFS also shows people working within public administration and defence to have high prevalence rates of self-reported work-related stress.
What can you do about the impact that stress has on your business?
The Chill Out Zone's corporate on site stress management service could be just what you are looking for.
We provide a range of research based relaxation therapies aimed at stress reduction in the workplace.
Each session can last as little as 10 minutes or as long as 40 minutes depending on the time and financial investment of employer and employee.
How does it work?
We attend your workplace at pre-arranged times.
You provide us with a private area in which to work.
You organise a schedule of employees that you would like us to see and provide them with the necessary paperwork.
We do the rest .......
Who pays?
Payment can be arranged in a number of ways
1. The employer pays the full amount for each session
2. The employer funds each session and the employee pays a proportion to the employer
3. The employer pays and collects payment for the session from the employee