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Stress

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines work-related stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work”. Employers have a legal duty to manage the risks to employees’ health and safety, including the risks arising from stress.

Stress is frequently identified as one of the biggest causes of long-term sickness absence in employee absence studies and surveys. Following a good practice approach to managing stress is likely to have organisational benefits for employers, including reducing sickness absence.


    • Stress
    • Right to work
    • NHS

    Nurses leaving due to pressure and workplace culture

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 May 2022

    The number of nurses and midwives leaving the NMC register has increased substantially, citing poor workplace cultures and too much pressure.

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Depression

    Workers feeing increasingly anxious, burnt out and fearful about cost of living

    by Nic Paton 13 May 2022
    by Nic Paton 13 May 2022

    Mental health in the workplace, anxiety, burnout and worries about the rising cost of living have all been firmly in the spotlight during Mental Health Awareness Week this week (from 9-15 May).

    • Reproductive health
    • Stress
    • Reasonable adjustments

    How employers can support women during the HRT shortage

    by Clare Marsland 13 May 2022
    by Clare Marsland 13 May 2022

    Clare Marsland outlines how employers can support women during the HRT shortage and suggests some reasonable adjustments.

    • Stress
    • Counselling
    • Latest News

    Employee assistance programmes step up response to Ukraine invasion

    by Jo Faragher 13 Apr 2022
    by Jo Faragher 13 Apr 2022

    Providers of employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are reporting significant rises in calls as they support workers based in Ukraine and surrounding states.

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    NHS staff survey: morale, pay satisfaction and wellbeing declining

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2022

    Staff morale in NHS England is declining and almost a third often think about leaving the organisation, the 2021 NHS staff survey has revealed.

    • Stress
    • Legal sector
    • Latest News

    New rules proposed to outlaw bullying culture in law firms

    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2022
    by Jo Faragher 14 Mar 2022

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority has proposed changes to its rules that would explicitly require law firms to challenge employees who...

    • Stress
    • Europe
    • Global mobility

    Ukraine and Russia: HR must play key role in risk management

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Mar 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Mar 2022

    Global health and security business tells Personnel Today about its operations in the two countries.

    • Stress
    • Stress
    • Mental health conditions

    International Women’s Day: why are women feeling burnt out?

    by Gosia Bowling 8 Mar 2022
    by Gosia Bowling 8 Mar 2022

    Why are women more vulnerable to burnout and how can organisations prevent, and support employees suffering from, unmanageable stress?

    • Stress
    • Fit for Work
    • Reasonable adjustments

    Staff with long Covid should be treated as having disability

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Mar 2022

    The EHRC's head of policy says that, in the absence of clear legislation, employers should treat staff who have long Covid as if they have a disability.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Sexual orientation discrimination

    Worker wins £22k following ‘old white man’ comments

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Feb 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Feb 2022

    A worker who was called an ‘old white man’ by a colleague, whose comments eventually led to him being signed...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Sleep

    Employees are tired, so how can HR help?

    by Harry Bliss 18 Feb 2022
    by Harry Bliss 18 Feb 2022

    Almost two years into the pandemic, the lines between work and home are increasingly blurred and this has taken its...

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Government vows to tackle resourcing in health and social care

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Feb 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Feb 2022

    The government will work with providers to tackle culture and staff shortages.

    • Anxiety
    • Stress
    • Depression

    HR struggling because of increasing employee burnout

    by Nic Paton 4 Feb 2022
    by Nic Paton 4 Feb 2022

    Almost half of HR managers (45%) have considered leaving their current roles because of the pressures of dealing with employee...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Survey: Engage with frontline workers or risk losing them

    by Jo Faragher 20 Jan 2022
    by Jo Faragher 20 Jan 2022

    Almost half of frontline workers in the UK are thinking of leaving their jobs because they feel disconnected from their...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Avoid the employee wellbeing tick-box trap

    by Dr Chris Golby 19 Jan 2022
    by Dr Chris Golby 19 Jan 2022

    Most organisations have ramped up their mental health and wellbeing support since the pandemic hit, but are their actions actually making a difference?

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