Work-related stress tops employers’ health and wellbeing concerns

HR Magazine

Additionally, HR should involve leaders in reforming their organisation’s approach to stress, explained William Fleming, Unilever research fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

Speaking to HR magazine, he said: “There might be some systems that HR can influence, like performance review or learning and development. But unfortunately, structural change can be beyond the reach for most HR personnel.

“They need to be empowered to help reform the major stressors at work, or have serious buy-in from senior leaders to make big changes happen. There are reactive systems like EAPs, with variable quality, but it’s important we’re moving towards a preventative approach by identifying and solving the big problems.”