'karoshi' - the Japanese have a word for it - is sudden death caused by overwork. Runaway demands for improved efficiency and accountability and increasing expectations of 24/7 customer-focused service provision are familiar features of twenty-first century business life. Corporate stress; the long-hours culture; people pressure; burnout: terms which have gatecrashed the vocabulary of work and made themselves at home. For too many of us chronic ill-health, performance anxiety or flatness of mood punctuated by sudden stabs of panic have come to seem like the price we pay for being paid. H&S executives estimate that around 2 million workers believe that work is bad for their health; absenteeism and poor job performance are only the most obvious effects.
This complex, insidious phenomenon is often summarised simply as 'stress', and 'feeling stressed' or 'stressed out' are rapidly becoming expected replies to enquiries about work. Corporate stress, we can imagine, is both the combined total stress experienced throughout the workforce and the agent of further employee pressure as the organisation itself struggles to meet and manage external demands. Unravelling the causes of systematic stress so as to promote corporate health and wellbeing, and offer individuals the chance to achieve that most elusive goal, a satisfactory work-life balance, calls for an objective overview and analysis.
The following pages outline our business services. Based in Harrogate, within easy reach of Leeds, Knaresborough, Ripon, Boroughbridge and Wetherby, and active throughout North and West Yorkshire, we offer individual employee support through workplace counselling, executive and performance coaching, personal, professional and leadership development, and a range of wellbeing programmes and workshops, including stress management and training and stress and pressure profiling. Our wellbeing practitioners have solid business experience and expertise, to help create a more robust and emotionally healthy climate within your organisation. Let us take some of the pressure off.
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