STRESS AT WORK AWARDS

BY DENMARK FINCH AND FRITZ BRETTINTROREDUCING stress amongst employees at work can make a major improvement to the bottom line of companies; indeed, so expensive is the problem, says the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, it is thought to cost the EU at least Euro 20 billion a year in lost time and health costs and affect more than 40 million of its employees.With this in mind (not forgetting the fact that stress is hardly pleasant for workers themselves), the agency made workplace stress its key campaign focus this past year, a programme that ...


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