Wellbeing | Is absence the answer to workplace stress?

By Kay Needle, Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert at Generali UK Employee Benefits

Stress, stress everywhere, but not a time to sink…Work-related stress is a huge problem for people and business. But absence from work is not necessarily the answer. In fact, it can make matters much worse, says Alex Freeman, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant and Owner of Absence Management Solutions, one of our trusted partners, speaking at one of our recent webinars for HR and Line Managers.*

A lot has been achieved over the last decade or so, in terms of increasing public awareness of stress; the contributory factors, also what is healthy stress and what isn’t.

At the same time though, work-related stress shows no sign of abating. It tends to fall within the catch-all term of mental health issues; the latter representing the most common work-limiting ‘condition’ now, with respect to both sickness absence and economic inactivity.