News Analysis: Employee stress costing UK plc

With businesses losing billions of pounds in productivity, Emmanuel Kenning reports on effective steps that broker managers can take to combat the problem of mental ill health in the workplace.

A report by mental health charity Mind has shown that 10% of UK workers have visited a general practitioner to seek support as a result of recessionary pressures in their workplace, with 7% starting a course of medical treatment for depression since the start of the recession.

With staff facing longer working hours, morale under constant pressure and estimates that mental health problems cost UK businesses £26bn a year, this is not an issue that broker managers can afford to ignore.

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