Stress relief: practical ways to tackle employee stress at work
Four out of five adults are stressed at work, how can employers effectively reduce stress in the workplace?
What makes British workers so stressed, and how can employers help reduce stress levels at work? Can short-term fixes help while long-term solutions are being devised? Watch our webinar for step-by-step advice and tips to reduce employee stress in the workplace.
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Four out of five adults are stressed at work, how can employers effectively reduce stress in the workplace?
Not only is the individual’s wellbeing and mental health at risk, but the organisation is also affected by low productivity, morale and increasing absence.
For example, according to new research by Cascade HR, four out of five adults are stressed for at least some of the working week, with one in four struggling to sleep. Many workers also cite stress as an issue in their personal lives and relationships.
So what makes British workers so stressed, and how can employers effectively reduce stress levels in the workplace? Can short-term fixes help while more long-term solutions are being devised? And, despite being cited as one of the causes of higher stress levels, can technology actually help to reduce the burden on employees?
Join our webinar, ‘Stress relief: practical ways to tackle employee stress at work’, for step-by-step advice and tips to reduce employee stress in the workplace.
Hear from leading HR consultants and practitioners who will cover:
- The most common stressors across different industries
- How to identify, monitor and contain these stressors, to help prevent serious stress from causing lasting damage
- Short-term manageable tactics to introduce into workplaces to boost employee morale, whilst bigger cultural issues are being tackled
- Practical changes to implement for the long-term wellbeing of employees
- The role of technology in helping to combat stress and relieve unnecessary admin burdens
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Geoff McDonald is the former Global VP HR at Unilever with a considerable background in teaching, HR, marketing, communications and sustainability. His 25 years at Unilever have taken him around the world, working across Africa, the Middle-East and Turkey, Australasia and Asia, Europe and the Americas. Under his leadership he developed Unilever’s global talent and leadership centre of expertise. More recently he devoted his time, energy and effort to leading ground-breaking work where the HR function has played a central role in transforming Unilever’s business model with purpose at its core.
Geoff’s work today is truly global and he is a very much sought-after speaker, strategic advisor and consultant. He inspires and provokes organisations around the world to put purpose and wellbeing at the centre of everything they do. His experience in Unilever, under the pupilage of Paul Polman, allows him to provide a real practitioner's perspective with very practical insights on how to go about truly embedding purpose and how to address the taboo associated with wellbeing (particularly mental health) within workplaces today such as a large global multi-national organisation.
Geoff is a Co-Founder of the Minds@Work network, a charity which endeavours to inspire and equip individuals to break the stigma of mental ill-health within the organisations they work in.
Stephen Bevan is Head of HR Research Development, the Institute for Employment Studies (IES). He is also Honorary Professor at Lancaster University. He was previously Director of Research at The Work Foundation. Stephen has a special interest in workforce health and wellbeing, having led a number of national and international projects focusing on workforce health and the impact of chronic illness on productivity and social inclusion.
He is an advisor to a number of UK government departments and has advised employers and policymakers in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australasia and North America
Georganna Simpson is People Management Insight's lead content manager, responsible for producing engaging, interactive and useful content in association with industry partners. She joined in October 2014.