Costs of Stress in the Workplace

Costs of Stress in the Workplace:

•  Stress, anxiety and depression is now the single biggest cause of sickness absence in the UK
• 46% of employers have reported an increase in stress-related absence within the workplace 
• The estimated cost of sickness absence to the British economy is  around 12 billion pounds per year

This equates to approximately 1600 pounds per employee.