Stress ‘is top cause of workplace sickness’
Health Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
By BECKY BARROW, Mail Online UK
Stress has become the most common reason for a worker being signed off long-term sick, a report reveals today.
Experts said the psychological condition had become so widespread that it was the ‘21st century equivalent of the Black Death’.
Stress has even eclipsed stroke, heart attack, cancer and back problems, according to the report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Jill Miller, an adviser to the institute, says the report ‘highlights the heightened pressure many people feel under in the workplace as a result of the prolonged economic downturn’.
Stress was found to be especially common at firms that have announced redundancies.
Long-term absence is defined as taking four weeks or more off at one time because of sickness.
To read more, visit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2045309/Stress-Top-cause-workplace-sickness-dubbed-Black-Death-21st-century.html
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