Organisational Change leads to Employee Stress.

I came across an excellent report this week published by CIPD looking at trends in sickness absence.  The report contains some extremely interesting findings.  CIPD report that "for the first time....stress is the most common cause of long-term sickness absence for both manual and non-manual employees.  Public sector respondents identify organisational change and restructuring as the number one cause of stress at work, highlighting the impact of public sector cuts to jobs, pension benefits and pay freezes.   Job insecurity is also reported as a more common cause of work-related stress in the public sector this year."


While this may not come as any great surprise, it is interesting to see evidence of elevated stress levels caused directly from organisational change activity and, if evidence were needed, points out the importance of effective and competent management of change within organisation.


The full report can be downloaded from the CIPD Website.