Three recent studies (2008-2009) show that, in five years, stress at work has soared in Germany. Over this period, the number of sick leaves caused by stress increased of 17%, reaching 10 million working days lost each year. Employees' permanent accessibility, the rationalization of labor processes or the lack of awareness in supervision are only a few of the reasons given by the study to explain the "stress boom". (Ref. 090603)
Stress and its consequence, the “burnout syndrome”, is frighteningly increasing in German businesses. This observation came out of three recent studies, carried out, respectively, by the Hans Blocker Foundation (1,7000 WCs surveyed between 2008 and 2009), the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK, health insurance), and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung- Institut (Deutschland im Stress, may 2009) and, finally, the Professional Federation of German Psychiatrists (BDP – Report on Psychic Health at Work – 2008).
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