Stress

For many employees, financial stress isn’t something they leave at home – it’s something they carry with them through the office doors.

April is Stress Awareness Month, and this year's theme is about approaching people with kindness, compassion, and acceptance.

By proactively addressing stress, firms can enhance employee wellbeing, improve performance and cultivate a more resilient workforce.

Work-related stress caused 16.4 million lost days in the UK in 2023/24. Leaders can reduce workplace stress by listening to employees, making mental health support visible through trained advocates, and modeling healthy work boundaries from the top.

By adopting insights from sports science, HR leaders can build workplaces that foster resilience, productivity, health and wellbeing.

Nearly all UK finance leaders work over their contracted hours, with nearly a third working the equivalent of an extra unpaid day per month.

Birmingham’s high burnout, lower-than-average salaries and a significant gender pay gap placed it at the top of the stress rankings.

Budget constraints and growing workplace complexities are hampering efforts to improve the employee experience, however.

Tackling workplace stress is important, and can have an impact on the wellbeing of your employees; healthier people make for a happier working environment.

The findings from Workhuman’s® latest Human Workplace Index reveal key insights about employee wellbeing and year-end stress.