Here’s an article you want to show your boss before tax season. It seems that European companies pay a lot more attention to workplace stress than American firms do. (Of course, European workers tend to get more vacation time than we do, also, so this shouldn't come as a surprise.) Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline - UK-based, I should note - has created a program to handle stress among company teams that focuses on the actual source of stress, not just the symptoms of it. The result, according to The Wall Street Journal, has been significant reductions of work-related mental illness and mental-health-related absences, and a related savings of about $1.4 million during the years between 2003 and 2006.
Companies Aim to Combat Job-Related Stress [WSJ]
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