Stress in the workplace: Spot the signs and tackle the causes.

April is Stress Awareness Month, but a year-round strategy for tackling workplace stress is essential to create a healthy and resilient workforce. Download our guide to identify whether your organisation has a stress problem and learn how to tackle the causes. 

Despite the move to hybrid working, celebrated for being more flexible and promoting employee wellbeing, levels of stress at work remain worryingly high. A hybrid workplace isn’t necessarily a stress-free one. If not properly managed, hybrid workers can feel more isolated, may struggle to switch off, and often end up working longer hours to prove they are working just as hard from home.

On top of this, there are increasing pressures on financial wellbeing caused by the current cost-of-living crisis. All of this means we’re at a crunch point for tackling stress at work:

• Two-thirds of staff are struggling with workplace stress
• Google searches for ‘signs of burnout’ have gone up by 221%
• 17 million working days were lost to stress last year

Working out if you have a problem with stress at work will involve looking at your HR data, gathering feedback via employee surveys, and identifying pockets of stress in your organisation. Then, armed with this knowledge, you can start to make changes to reduce and handle stress in the workplace and create healthier, more engaged employees.

Download our guide to learn how to spot the signs of workplace stress, what to ask in your wellbeing survey, and the changes your leaders and managers should be making now.

For more ways to combat workplace stress read our guest post by Bupa’s Head of Employee Wellbeing.