100 billion per year: the cost of work -related stress in the EU
100 billion euros per year. The European Union Agency (ETUI) issued a study on Monday, according to a survey of the annual cost of work -related depression in the EU.
The reflection panel identifies the five psychological social risks in the appearance of this mental illness:
Stress at work
Long working hours
Insecure in employment
The imbalance between the effort and the reward
Moral harassment.
These risks will have sad consequences according to pre -2015 data.
“About 6000 coronary diseases cause deaths of mental social risks, and more than 5,000 deaths are caused by depression,” says EU researcher Sonia Narock.
In the same year, the report said that more than 400,000 years of loss of heart disease and depression were lost. Dimitra Theodori, director of ETUI’s health and security director, writes “these are preventable deaths.”
According to CES, 8% of cardiovascular diseases and 23% recession are the cause of these psychological social risks.
Bosses pay for depression
The report states that the report is not only the economic cost of depression, but also for cardiovascular disease, especially coronary diseases and stroke, with the psychological factors of the work.
In this picture, FranceBelgium, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands are the five countries affected by the cost of 100,000 workers. This financial fee is boss and worker, but sometimes asymmetrically shared.
Sonia Navrok explains, “We have found that there are heavy accusations for two diseases, workers, but employers. In particular, as far as the cost of depression is concerned, more than 80% of the total cost of depression were attributed to psychological social risks in Europe in 2015,” Sonia Navrok explains. “This cost was paid by employers because of the lack of productivity and reduced the productivity caused by the disease and absence.”
Whenever workers work, but have less performance for health reasons, that is, mood.
These numbers are based on the Europhond 2015 data. The European foundation for improving life and work conditions publishes a study of working conditions every five years, but 2020 has interrupted the 2020 epidemic investigations. Therefore, the ETUI is waiting for a new investigation this year and comparing the health risk tendencies.
Faced with these discoveries, the European Union demands a speech to strengthen the European Commission. ETUI considers this mental order to guide employers.
Investigators, however, recognize that there is no unique answer, as efforts to prevent these risks vary depending on the workplace and labor. However, the reflection committee emphasizes that adding workers in the prevention process is an important component.
