Corporate Stress Solutions: Corporate Stress

Corporate Stress Solutions: Corporate Stress

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At Stress Directions, we help companies reduce the costs of stress. Our case studies (link to) show how we’ve turned measurable stress into measurable results for Fortune 50 companies, government agencies and others by:

Reducing health benefits costs by $13 million in one year
Reducing employee turnover from 40% to 15% in a three-year period
Relieving worker’s compensation claims that had skyrocketed 80% in three years

Stress knowledge promotes well-being and saves money in the workplace. Independent studies show effective organizational stress interventions:

Lower operating costs: $1 spent on stress management = $7 return on investment
Increase access to, utilization, and valuation of human capital
Create company’s leadership role in nurturing a productive and healthy work environment in turbulent times
Leverage intranet technology investments in support of strategic and workforce initiatives while increasing individual and organizational stress knowledge
Reduce a variety of risks

Do you have measurement systems to assess the substantial cost savings from implementing an intelligent stress assessment process? We will help you develop targeted programs that:

alleviate your organizational symptoms of stress
assist employees with developing coping skills and positive lifestyle behaviors
audit workplace characteristics that affect employee health and productivity
measurably decrease the negative impacts of stress on your organization

Stress knowledge will help reduce corporate liability. Research shows that in the U.S.:

Inappropriate anger in the workplace, a symptom of stress and frustration, is a leading cause of firings – cited ahead of job incompetence.
There are nearly two million instances of assault in the workplace per year.
Homicide was the second leading cause of death in the workplace from 1992 to 1996, after fatal accidents. Eighty-three percent of these offenders were male, and most were 30 or over.

For organizations and their employees, our customized services take you to positive action and behavioral changes that reduce stress in a consistent, organized manner, and will help you break out of your habitual approaches to stress in order to maintain a healthy and productive workplace.

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