Stress vs. Strikes
July 28, 2009 | Terry Sharrer
University of Warwick (UK) researcher Bernard Casey recently presenting his analysis showing that work-related stress accounted for more loss of workdays than strikes during the height of labor unrest during the 1970’s. He figured that the strikes cost 12.9 million person days per year in the ’70s, while annual work-related stress currently costs the UK 13.5 million person days of lost output. Stress relief, of course, is a focus area for telemedicine and devices such as MC Square (mentioned in last week’s Tagline). MORE