The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development are developing three guides on dealing with stress in the workplace. This follows claims that about one in five workers have experienced high levels of stress, which lead to long absences from work and is estimated to cost employers in the United Kingdom £9.6 billion per year.
The stress guides will cover issues relating to competency framework, line-manager behaviour and advice for Human Resource teams.
Our view
Workplace stress damages morale and productivity, which leads to a high turnover of staff. Employers and managers should seriously look at a ‘happy’ working environment. We appreciate that people are paid to do a job and they should do it, but how you manage staff and their pressures in doing that job for you needs to be controlled.