Benchmarking stress management in 2010: Recession drives up stress
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The recession provoked a sharp rise in workplace stress - and UK employers are increasing their efforts to deal with this trend, according to 2010 benchmarking research on stress management from IRS for HR & Compliance Centre. The IRS/HR & Compliance Centre benchmarking survey on stress management is based on responses from 98 organisations with a combined workforce of more than 300,000 employees. |
Subscribers to HR & Compliance Centre benchmarking can drill down into the complete benchmarking data from the 2010 survey of stress management activities.
Click on the links to access full benchmarking data on each of the following key findings, then apply filters where necessary to view data by sector, organisation size, and/or region:
- Stress management measures are being increased by many employers in order to deal with rising levels of stress resulting from the recession.
- Almost four-fifths of respondents have acted or are acting to reduce work-related stress.
- Only half of employers have investigated the causes of stress.
- The most common methods used to research workplace stress are: analysing absence data; employee attitude surveys; and stress audits.
- Public sector employers are most proactive in undertaking stress risk assessments.
- The three main reasons for acting to reduce employee stress are: promoting employee wellbeing/health; managing absence; and compliance with health and safety legislation.
- Over half have used the HSE management standards for work-related stress.
As well as benchmarking data to help you measure and monitor good practice on managing stress, HR & Compliance Centre subscribers can access a wealth of resources on managing workplace stress, including the following: How to prevent claims of workplace stress; and Workplace stress: FAQs.
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Michael Carty, Benchmarking Editor
