Stress Awareness Month | How HR can support stressed employees

While many will identify April 1st as the time to play a harmless prank on a friend, family member or co-worker, the date also signifies the start of a very important campaign – Stress Awareness Month.

Organised by the UK-based Stress Management Society, the annual period has been held every April since 1992 to raise awareness of the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic. And the last two years have been the most challenging many of us have ever faced.

Each annual Stress Awareness Month focuses on a central theme, with this year’s being Community.

“We have chosen this theme because lack of support can cause loneliness and isolation, which in turn lowers people’s wellbeing, impacts mental health and can lead to mental illness," organisers said on its website.