Stress Caused More Working Days To Be Losts Than 1970 Strikes

It is remembered as the decade of the three-day week and the Winter of Discontent.

Millions of working days were lost every year during the Seventies due to seemingly endless strikes.

But today a more modern problem - work-related stress - is proving more costly than industrial disputes did back then, say researchers.

At the peak of the unrest of the Seventies, the UK lost around 12.9million days of output every year due to strikes, according to a study.

Now, 13.5million working days a year are lost because of stress-related illness.

Researchers at Warwick University, who produced the study, warned yesterday that the recession could lead to workers coming in even when they are feeling stressed, which could result in a greater cost to the economy.

This is because increasing numbers of employees will feel they need to maintain their attendance rate at a time when redundancies are feared.

Bernard Casey, of the university's Institute for Employment Research, said: 'The current recession is likely to intensify stress at work. Uncertainty, itself, breeds stress

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