Corporate - Stress management

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Why tackle work-related stress?
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.

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
• Organisational image and reputation.

Massage reduces workplace stress by 30%

How On-site massage can help to alleviate stress at work
The Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami
(TRI) has reported that a basic 15-minute chair massage, provided twice weekly, results in decreased job stress and