Stress stress and more stress

[grahamw48]

Oh dear...more employment law on the way from the nanny state ?

Soon HR will be absorbing even more of the profits by running anti-heart disease stress-counseling...for people who probably shouldn't be doing the job anyway, if they're SO unhappy.

IMO a lot of people make their own stress by being over-ambitious.
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Yes, you may have to buy a smaller house and a smaller car (oh the humiliation), but you might also live a healthier and more relaxed life.

Up to you.

[lastlid]

Oh dear...more employment law on the way from the nanny state ?

Soon HR will be absorbing even more of the profits by running anti-heart disease stress-counseling...for people who probably shouldn't be doing the job anyway, if they're SO unhappy.

IMO a lot of people make their own stress by being over-ambitious.
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Yes, you may have to buy a smaller house and a smaller car (oh the humiliation), but you might also live a healthier and more relaxed life.

Up to you.

Its actually a massive problem, Graham. Not just the odd few. And what UK employer's haven't fully cottoned on to is the number of man hours lost per year to the problem.

However, the times they are a changing and slowly but surely it is being recognised along with any other hazard. The law is in place, just needs companies to fall foul of it and get fined etc.... My previous employer started to recognise it a couple of years ago.

I am not sure if the answer to exposure to work related hazards is to move job. The answer is to remove the hazards in place at work.

"By the term work related stress we mean the process that arises where work demands of various types and combinations exceed the person’s capacity and capability to cope. Think of this as ‘bad work’. It is a significant cause of illness and disease and is known to be linked with high levels of sickness absence, staff turnover and other indicators of organisational underperformance - including human error."


"Recent statistics confirm that work related stress is widespread in the UK working population and is not confined to particular sectors or high risk jobs or industries. That is why a population-wide approach is necessary to tackle it."

From the HSE.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/furtheradvice/wrs.htm

Personally, I have a stress free job, but not everyone is in that position. And for their sake I would like to see stress, as a hazard, addressed properly in the workplace.