Posted by Corporate Wellness | Posted in Corporate Wellness Consultants | Posted on 25-08-2008
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Today’s rapidly changing workplaces are proving to be high stress incubators. Disability rates have climbed relentlessly. The best people solve the stress problem simply by leaving. And corporately critical change programs are often derailed by staff disengagement … driven by stress. Corporate stress-disability rates have doubled from 1995 to 2004. Juggling work and family is rated, by dual career families, as a top stressor, leading work absences to rise in Canada by 18% from 2004 to 2005. Prescriptions for anti-depressants and minor tranquilizers now rival, in $ terms, those for high blood pressure and related cardiovascular problems. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences estimates that 70 to 80% of all visits to the family doctor are now stress-related. |
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Responding to these needs, The Canadian Institute of Stress (CIS) was founded in 1979 by the internationally acknowledged “father of the stress field”, Dr. Hans Selye, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., as well as 20 other professionals who understood the scope of his work, including six Nobel Prize laureates and Alvin Toffler, Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan. Dr. Richard Earle, who was Dr. Selye’s last post-doctoral student (1979-82), has directed the Institute’s development over the past 24 years. |
Today, the Institute comprises more than 200 professionals across Canada plus an equal number of leading practitioners and stress scientists around the world … in countries including the U.K., Italy, India, Japan and the U.S. The Institute’s published achievements, in workplaces and for individuals, include …
Workplace results |
Personal results |
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| Work stress | 32% improvement | Doctor’s office visits | 53% reduction |
| Work satisfaction | 38% improvement | Days absent from work | 58% reduction |
| Absence | 18% reduction | Immunoglobulin A | 31% improvement |
| Disability days | 52% reduction | Stress hyper-reactivity [EMG] | 46% improvement |
| Grievances | 32% reduction | Stress recovery time [EMG] | 36% improvement |
| Productivity | 07% improvement | Ability to relax at will [GSR] | 61% improvement |
| Quality measures | 13% improvement | ||
| Work engagement | 62% improvement | ||