Greater than half of British employees are making errors at work due to stress, whereas one in 4 have taken break day sick in consequence, in keeping with new analysis that highlights the rising toll of office stress on productiveness and wellbeing.
A survey by well being and security coaching supplier Astutis discovered that 52.6 per cent of staff admit stress has led them to make errors at work, whereas 28.5 per cent say they’ve missed deadlines resulting from feeling overwhelmed. Nearly a 3rd (32.9 per cent) reported clashing with colleagues as a direct results of stress.
The findings come as new figures from the Well being and Security Govt (HSE) reveal that 964,000 employees in Britain suffered from work-related stress, melancholy or anxiousness over the previous 12 months, underlining the dimensions of the problem dealing with employers.
Astutis’ Office Silent Stress Survey 2025, which questioned 553 individuals throughout the UK, paints a regarding image of how stress is quietly undermining efficiency and office relationships. Past misplaced productiveness, the report suggests the monetary value to companies runs into hundreds of thousands of kilos annually via absenteeism, errors and employees turnover.
Maybe most putting is how few staff really feel capable of converse overtly about stress at work. Simply 4.7 per cent of respondents stated they’d increase issues with their supervisor, whereas only one.3 per cent would method somebody in a senior management function.
Steve Terry, managing director at Astutis, stated the outcomes level to a tradition the place many staff really feel unable to talk up.
“These numbers painting a widespread office tradition the place individuals don’t really feel protected elevating stress-related issues, preferring as a substitute to endure in silence,” he stated.
Whereas employees are speaking about stress, they’re doing so away from the office. Greater than half of respondents stated they have been extra more likely to open up to associates or household than anybody at work. Terry warned that whereas this presents emotional assist, it does little to resolve the underlying causes.
“Family and friends can hear, however they don’t have any energy to alter workloads, deadlines or processes,” he stated. “It’s administration who’re able to deal with the basis causes of stress.”
Astutis is now urging employers to take a more in-depth have a look at their inside processes and firm tradition, and to create environments the place employees really feel capable of have trustworthy conversations with managers earlier than stress escalates into burnout.
The advantages, the agency argues, circulate each methods. Companies can cut back the price of misplaced hours, errors and worker churn, whereas employees really feel extra supported, valued and capable of carry out at their greatest.
