Sick days soar for council workers under stress
Council workers from South Cambridgeshire are reportedly at high risk of developing mental health conditions, depression and stress following six redundancies that were made during the last financial year.
Lindsey Smith, the human resources coordinator has noted that sickness rates increased significantly during the third and forth quarters of 2009 and the percentage of absences caused by stress, depression and mental health issues is continually increasing.
The goal for number of sick days taken per year currently stands at 9.5, but the average full time worker took 12.65 during 2009.
Workplace stress is an issue we are hearing more and more of everyday, with job loss worries bearing over many people and some employees taking responsibility for additional work it is easy to understand why Brit’s are tearing their hair out over work.
Many employees have advocated the use of hypnotherapy for reducing workplace stress as it is a fantastic way of helping individuals to understand the signs of workplace stress and how it effects performance and productivity. It then moves onto teach stress management techniques which will allow you to react to negative feedback or a tense situation in a different way by programming your unconscious mind in a slightly different way.
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