Stress has now overtaken the common cold as the main cause of workplace absenteeism, with a cost to the UK economy of £9.6bn per year, according to the Health and Safety Executive (2005).
If the impact on the economy is damaging, the affect on the individual can be devastating. Research suggests stress may be linked to everything from anxiety and depression to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and even cancer.
Pressure isn't necessarily a bad thing - in fact a little workplace pressure can be a good thing. With the right amount of pressure we will work effectively, feel creative, alert, stimulated and decisive - and look forward to the challenges of the workplace, But if we are stressed we can feel overloaded, anxious, irritable, exhausted and burnt out.
The first step to a productive happy work pace is to understanding your relationship with stress, recognise what a healthy level of stress is for you and to have coping strategies in place before your pressure gauge goes into the red.
Regular treatments not only help to reduce stress and tension, but they may also speed recovery from a wide range of acute and chronic illnesses. Benefits within a company may include:
-The ability of staff to cope more effectively under pressure
-Speedy recovery and return to work after illness, accident or surgery (through Reflexology)
-Relief for office related conditions, headaches, migraine, eye strain (Indian Head Massage)
-Enhanced staff resilience and resistance to infection and disease
-Optimum care for your staff by complementing conventional medicine.
-Increased morale, satisfaction and loyalty of the staff
-Enhanced concentration, efficiency and accuracy
-Improved creativity, planning and decision making
-Better relationships amongst staff and between staff management
Reduced sickness and absenteeism, increased productivity and financial benefits for the company may be visible results. Less obvious, perhaps, are the possible positive effects on morale amongst employees who feel they are being treated with respect and a caring attitude.
*Managers input*
Provide a quiet room within the workplace on a regular basis allowing some flexibility for staff to receive treatment during a given time slot of availability. Facilitate a booking form so staff can reserve a time that personally suits for treatment.
Employees could be made fully responsible for the cost of their treatment; or treatment could be subsidised in part or in full by the organisation, through wellbeing, or team building funds, or just as a thoughtful season bonus or Thank you.
If the impact on the economy is damaging, the affect on the individual can be devastating. Research suggests stress may be linked to everything from anxiety and depression to heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and even cancer.
Pressure isn't necessarily a bad thing - in fact a little workplace pressure can be a good thing. With the right amount of pressure we will work effectively, feel creative, alert, stimulated and decisive - and look forward to the challenges of the workplace, But if we are stressed we can feel overloaded, anxious, irritable, exhausted and burnt out.
The first step to a productive happy work pace is to understanding your relationship with stress, recognise what a healthy level of stress is for you and to have coping strategies in place before your pressure gauge goes into the red.
Regular treatments not only help to reduce stress and tension, but they may also speed recovery from a wide range of acute and chronic illnesses. Benefits within a company may include:
-The ability of staff to cope more effectively under pressure
-Speedy recovery and return to work after illness, accident or surgery (through Reflexology)
-Relief for office related conditions, headaches, migraine, eye strain (Indian Head Massage)
-Enhanced staff resilience and resistance to infection and disease
-Optimum care for your staff by complementing conventional medicine.
-Increased morale, satisfaction and loyalty of the staff
-Enhanced concentration, efficiency and accuracy
-Improved creativity, planning and decision making
-Better relationships amongst staff and between staff management
Reduced sickness and absenteeism, increased productivity and financial benefits for the company may be visible results. Less obvious, perhaps, are the possible positive effects on morale amongst employees who feel they are being treated with respect and a caring attitude.
*Managers input*
Provide a quiet room within the workplace on a regular basis allowing some flexibility for staff to receive treatment during a given time slot of availability. Facilitate a booking form so staff can reserve a time that personally suits for treatment.
Employees could be made fully responsible for the cost of their treatment; or treatment could be subsidised in part or in full by the organisation, through wellbeing, or team building funds, or just as a thoughtful season bonus or Thank you.
