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Work-related stress among employees in Ireland has doubled between 2010 and 2015, according to a new study from the Institute for Economic and Social Research, funded by the Health and Safety Authority.
His findings suggest that 17% of the workforce experienced stress in 2015, up from 8% in 2010 – one of the highest increases among the ten Western European countries surveyed.
However, the Irish figure was still below the 19% average.
Employees are known to be stressed at work if they report doing so "always" or "most of the time", as well as by stress responses such as general fatigue, anxiety, and anxiety disorders. sleep.
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of Irish workers who experienced one or more stress responses increased from 21% to 38%.
Workers most likely to report stress were in the health sector (18%), public administration (16%) and manufacturing (15%) – while retail trade and construction of the weakest stress.
20% of technical / badociate professionals report stress, 16% of professionals and 14% of managers.
Irish employees were most likely to trigger stress due to emotional demands, including those dealing with customers angry or forced to hide their feelings.
Workers facing such emotional demands were 21 times more likely to cope with work stress than those without this type of pressure.
Those who were pressed for time were 10 times more likely to experience stress at work than those without a tight deadline.
Employees exposed to bullying, harbadment and violence were eight times more likely to be stressed than those who were employed without this exposure.
Extended working hours can also be a source of stress: people working more than 40 hours a week are twice as likely to cope with work stress as those working 36 to 40 hours. The legal limit is 48 hours a week.
Those who felt that they were underpaid for what they did were four times more likely to be stressed – while those who performed physically demanding work were twice as likely to suffer from stress .
Irish workers were also more likely to report intimidation, harbadment and other forms of abuse – but less likely to experience time pressures.
The survey was based on data from the European Survey of Working Conditions conducted in 2010 and 2015.
On the positive side, Irish employees reported relatively high levels of support from managers and colleagues.
According to the ESRI report, the joint report with HSA underlines the importance for Irish companies of adopting policies to reduce employees' stress at work.
He cites the consequences of stress on health, which can include cardiovascular disease, depression, as well as consequences such as absenteeism, increased rate of labor turnover and morale degradation. .
However, only 40% of employers have policies in place to fight workplace stress.
According to ESRI, it is urgent to take measures to address psycho-social risks such as bullying, harbadment and violence, as well as to meet the high demands of emotions and time constraints .
Author Helen Russell urged employers to manage risk in order to avoid the significant individual and organizational costs badociated with stress-related illnesses.
Sharon McGuinness, CEO of HSA, said the research would clarify how stress is becoming an organizational problem – and highlighted HSA's online tools to help employers.
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