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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
    • Careers in HR
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    HR’s post-pandemic wellbeing yet to bounce back

    by Jo Faragher 7 Aug 2023
    by Jo Faragher 7 Aug 2023

    HR professionals globally are yet to return to the levels of wellbeing they had before the pandemic, according to Culture Amp.

    • Stress
    • Health and safety
    • Mental health

    Mental health top priority for new health and safety alliance

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Aug 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Aug 2023

    Nine UK health and safety organisations have come together to form the Occupational Safety and Health Stakeholder Alliance.

    • Stress
    • Long Covid
    • Latest News

    Long-term sickness: sharp rise in people with multiple conditions

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jul 2023

    There was an increase of over 400,000 people unable to work because of long-term conditions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the ONS found.

    • Stress
    • Financial wellbeing
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    Financial wellbeing: Four lessons learned from mental health support

    by Sam Lathey 24 Jul 2023
    by Sam Lathey 24 Jul 2023

    We can learn a lot from how we support employees on mental health when it comes to financial wellbeing.

    • Stress
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Finance sector makes progress on mental health

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jul 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Jul 2023

    Many finance sector employers are concerned that the current economic downturn may see worsening mental health among staff.

    • Stress
    • CIPD
    • Employee engagement

    CIPD Good Work Index 2023: Workers less fulfilled and more stressed

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2023
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2023

    The CIPD believes job quality has gone backwards in the past four years, with workers undergoing more stress and less engagement.

    • Anxiety
    • Hybrid working
    • Stress

    Remote working pushing mental health to top of wellbeing agenda

    by Nic Paton 11 May 2023
    by Nic Paton 11 May 2023

    Mental health is now the top wellbeing concern for employers, as hybrid and remote working models increasingly become the norm.

    • Stress
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    Poor managers impact mental health and job satisfaction

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 May 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 May 2023

    Staff who rate their line managers' capabilities poorly are more likely to experience negative mental health, according to CIPD research.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Half find staying healthy harder in cost-of-living crisis

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Mar 2023

    More than half of UK adults feel the cost-of-living crisis has made it more difficult to stay healthy.

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Why mental health first aid is not the ‘gold standard’

    by Emily Pearson 21 Mar 2023
    by Emily Pearson 21 Mar 2023

    A workplace mental health consultant gives her opinion on the effectiveness of mental health first aid, and moves to make it mandatory.

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    NHS staff survey: One in three often consider leaving

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Mar 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Mar 2023

    One in three employees in NHS trusts in England often think about leaving their job, according to the NHS staff survey 2022.

    • Stress
    • Mental health
    • Occupational Health

    Don’t ignore small business owners’ mental health

    by Alison Wild 7 Mar 2023
    by Alison Wild 7 Mar 2023

    People facing some of the most challenging mental health issues – small business owners – are often left out of wellbeing strategies.

    • Stress
    • Health and safety
    • Latest News

    Why mental health first aid legislation is long overdue

    by Simon Blake 1 Mar 2023
    by Simon Blake 1 Mar 2023

    Proposed mental health first aid legislation could be the start of a wider project to put mental and physical health on a level footing.

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Improve NHS staff wellbeing to provide better care, investigation urges

    by Jo Faragher 27 Feb 2023
    by Jo Faragher 27 Feb 2023

    NHS staff working in urgent and emergency care have been under ‘significant distress’ after feeling they could not help the...

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Mental health

    Mixed response to MP’s mandatory mental health first aid training proposal

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Jan 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Jan 2023

    Employers should be legally required to offer mental health first aid training, an MP has proposed.

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