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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
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    How to support the mental health of neurodivergent employees

    by Lou Campbell 21 Feb 2024
    by Lou Campbell 21 Feb 2024

    Neurodivergent individuals are more likely to experience a mental health issue, such as anxiety or depression.

    • Stress
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    • Mental health

    ‘Quit while you’re ahead’: the HR lessons of Jürgen Klopp’s decision to step away

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jan 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jan 2024

    The news that Jürgen Klopp is stepping down as manager of Liverpool FC at the end of the season has raised fresh comment around burnout in HR circles.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Wellbeing: Staff losing a day of productive time per week

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jan 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jan 2024

    A survey finds poor wellbeing is having a significant impact on productivity, costing employees nearly a day per week, on average.

    • Stress
    • Department for Education
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    Government to remove performance-related pay in schools

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Jan 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Jan 2024

    Schools will no longer be obliged to use performance-related pay, the government has said as part of plans to reduce teachers' workload.

    • Stress
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Ex-Goldman Sachs employee seeks £1m over ‘relentless’ workload

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jan 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jan 2024

    A former Goldman Sachs employee has brought a legal case over workload pressures against its London business.

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    Younger men reporting ‘alarming’ levels of burnout

    by Nic Paton 8 Dec 2023
    by Nic Paton 8 Dec 2023

    Male ‘Millennial’ or ‘Gen Z’ employees are reporting “alarming” levels of burnout, research has suggested.
    The Cigna 2023 Vitality Study...

    • Stress
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    DWP staff shortages harming mental health, claims union

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Dec 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Dec 2023

    An additional 30,000 jobs at the Department for Work and Pensions are needed to meet current demand, a union claims.

    • Stress
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    Tribunal: stress can be disability without mental health diagnosis

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Nov 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Nov 2023

    An employment tribunal has ruled that stress can be considered disability without a formal mental health diagnosis from a doctor.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Study: Ostracism at work creates negative perceptions of health and job

    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Nov 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 7 Nov 2023

    Ostracism at work weakens employees' job satisfaction, creates negative perceptions of their health, and increases stress, research has found.

    • Stress
    • Benefits
    • Financial wellbeing

    How to address the financial wellbeing support ‘perception gap’

    by Sam Lathey 2 Nov 2023
    by Sam Lathey 2 Nov 2023

    Research shows a significant gap in how employers and employees perceive the financial wellbeing support on offer.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Three lines of defence against burnout

    by Sophy Pern 31 Oct 2023
    by Sophy Pern 31 Oct 2023

    Burnout interventions at work often fail to address the problem. What organisational factors need to be changed?

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mediation

    How to have less stressful conflict conversations

    by Alexandra Efthymiades 30 Oct 2023
    by Alexandra Efthymiades 30 Oct 2023

    Conflict conversations can cause anxiety, bu tcan be managed in ways that minimise stress for all involved, writes Alexandra Efthymiades.

    • Stress
    • CIPD
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    Sickness absence rates soar to 10-year high

    by Rob Moss 26 Sep 2023
    by Rob Moss 26 Sep 2023

    Sickness absence rates hit 7.8 days per year on average in 2023, the highest level reported in a decade and two days more than pre-pandemic.

    • Stress
    • Benefits
    • Disability

    Employee’s ill-health dismissal was by mutual consent, finds EAT

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Sep 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Sep 2023

    An employee who was dismissed because of ill health and agreed to receive an insurance payout to cover his salary...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    How to avert burnout in HR

    by Emily Pearson 23 Aug 2023
    by Emily Pearson 23 Aug 2023

    There are signs that burnout in HR is increasing. Tackling this involves organisational, team and individual responses.

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