{"id":5131,"date":"2018-08-31T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2022-05-04T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T21:38:00","slug":"sme-survey-workers-at-small-businesses-are-least-likely-to-experience-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/sme-survey-workers-at-small-businesses-are-least-likely-to-experience-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"SME Survey: Workers at Small Businesses Are Least Likely to Experience Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h1><strong>Micro businesses (1-4 headcount) hold the lowest levels of employee stress, with under half (45%) reporting this<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong>Small businesses (5-50 headcount) feel slightly more stressed, at 57% reporting work-stress<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h1><strong>65% of employees at larger sized businesses\u2019 (500+ headcount) experience job-related stress, making large businesses the most stressful companies to work for<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5133\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openbusinesscouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk-sme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk-sme.png 800w, https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk-sme-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk-sme-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.footballthink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/uk-sme-287x190.png 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SME Survey: Workers at Small Businesses Are Least Likely to Experience Stress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite margins often being tighter and tensions or losses often being felt more keenly in\u00a0smaller\u00a0businesses, new research shows that the level of occupational stress workers feel directly correlates to the size of the company they are in.<\/p>\n<p>Micro businesses\u00a0employing a maximum of four members of staff were less likely than those in businesses of any other size to feel work-related stress, with <strong>45%<\/strong> of employees reporting this, according to a study of 3,000 UK workers carried out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perkbox.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perkbox<\/a>, the UK\u2019s fastest growing employee benefits platform, as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perkbox.com\/uk\/2018\/02\/07\/the-state-of-workplace-stress\/?utm_source=PR&amp;utm_medium=external%20&amp;utm_campaign=CON_BLG_StressedCities_PRAgency1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 UK Workplace Stress Report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This figure increases to <strong>57% for\u00a0small businesses\u00a0(5 &#8211; 50 staff) and again to 62% for\u00a0small\u00a0to medium sized organisations (51 &#8211; 500 employees).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, workers at the largest sized\u00a0businesses\u00a0surveyed \u2013 those with more than 500 members of staff \u2013 report the greatest instances of staff experiencing workplace stress, with 65% doing so.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one in five (21%) UK workers reveal they experience moderate to high levels of work-related stress as often as several times per week.<\/p>\n<p>Many businesses could see dips in productivity as a result \u2013 as the data reveals that 25% of UK workers struggle to be as productive at work as they normally would be when experiencing stress.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, almost half (45%) of UK workers say that their place of work does not have anything in place to help reduce employees\u2019 stress levels and improve their mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>Chieu Cao, CMO &amp; Co-Founder at Perkbox, said: <em>\u201cInterestingly, it\u2019s those in micro businesses that are the least likely to experience work related stress, despite those in smaller companies feeling the direct impact of business tensions or losses. It\u2019s fascinating to reveal that the level of occupational stress can directly correlate to the size of a business. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s more than clear that a happy workforce is a productive workforce. It\u2019s surprising to see that in 2018, employers are not doing more to ensure a happy, healthy and productive work environment, not only to protect staff against stress but also to gain the very best results from the driven workforce.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cao continues:<em> \u201cThere are also numerous benefits that businesses can offer to promote a more productive work environment that staff will welcome, including free or discounted gym membership, yoga classes and mindfulness classes which are all \u2018perks\u2019 that work to also create healthy coping mechanisms and reduce stress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><em>Contributed content<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micro businesses (1-4 headcount) hold the lowest levels of employee stress, with under half (45%) reporting this Small businesses (5-50 headcount) feel slightly more stressed, at 57% reporting work-stress 65% of employees at larger sized businesses\u2019 (500+ headcount) experience job-related stress, making large businesses the most stressful companies to work for Despite margins often being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3711,4810,7589],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.1 (Yoast SEO v19.7.2) - 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