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Why is it so important to ensure that your employees have access and promotion of good mental and physical health?

 To reduce sickness absence

 
  • Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health.
  • Each case of stress-related ill health leads to an average of 30.9 working days lost.
  • A total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5.

 
 

Latest Research

To benefit your business

 

As well as reducing sickness absence costs to an organisation, tackling stress can have a positive effect on:

  • Employee commitment to work;
  • Staff performance and productivity;
  • Staff turnover or intention to leave;
  • Staff recruitment and retention;
  • Customer satisfaction; and
  • Organisational image and reputation.