This is more than the after-tax profits of the Fortune 500 companies, and 10 times the cost of all strikes combined. Workers compensation awards for job stress threaten to bankrupt the system in some states. TRI has documented the positive effects of massage therapy on job performance and stress reduction. The research indicates that, a basic 15 minute chair massage, provided twice weekly resulted in decreased job stress and significant increase in productivity. Brain waves were altered in ways that are consistent with enhanced alertness and simple math computations were completed in half the time and half the errors.
Stress keeps about one million people a day from going to work.
Stress causes one third of American workers to seriously consider quitting.