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Over half of Brits make mistakes at work due to stress, research finds
According to new research, over half of Brits( 52.6 %) are making mistakes at work due to stress, and one in four Brits have rung in sick at least once due to how stressed they’ re feeling.
The HSE revealed their latest statistics, showing that 964,000 workers this year have suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety.
The Astutis report states that over one in four( 28.5 %) Brits have missed deadlines due to stress, and a third( 32.9 %) of Brits have also clashed with someone in the workplace due to stress.
These stats are costing workplaces millions of pounds each year, and workplaces need to take workplace burnout and stress more seriously.
The research paints a stark picture of how stress is impacting productivity, collaboration and employee wellbeing across Britain.
The Workplace Silent Stress Survey 2025 surveyed 553 participants to find more about who they speak to, if anyone, when they’ re stressed.
What’ s troubling is that individuals aren’ t talking with their managers about their worries, which are leading to these responses.
Only 4.7 % of those surveyed said that they would speak to their managers about what’ s concerning them, and even fewer( 1.3 %) engage with people in leadership roles.
Steve Terry, Managing Director at Astutis, said:“ These numbers portray a widespread, workplace culture where employees may feel unsafe to raise stress-related concerns, preferring to suffer in silence.”
Only 9 % of organisations offer fully personalised compliance training
Despite expectations for employers to take action on cyberrisk, harassment and sanctions, most organisations still use one-size-fits-all compliance training that fails to change behaviour. A new VinciWorks poll shows only 9 % of organisations offer fully personalised learning paths, leaving gaps for various roles and risk areas.
The poll, which gathered responses from 131 HR, L & D and compliance professionals, shows that 32 % of organisations provide the same general training to most employees and 40 % offer some tailoring by department or role. The remaining organisations are unsure or planning to introduce personalisation in future.
“ If a junior warehouse operative and a senior finance officer are receiving the same cyber training, that organisation is not managing its risk effectively,” said Nick Henderson-Mayo, Head of Compliance at VinciWorks.“ Training needs to reflect the realworld decisions people make in their roles. Personalisation helps employees understand how compliance applies to them, and that’ s what changes behaviour.”
Many organisations continue to take a minimal approach to cyber training, putting them at serious risk as new regulations draw closer.
Only 16.8 % of respondents train staff quarterly or more often, while 57.3 % train annually and 8.4 % do not provide any cybersecurity training at all
This comes ahead of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, which will introduce mandatory 24-hour incident reporting for certain industries, expand the scope of regulated companies and give the Information Commissioner’ s Office new enforcement powers. Without immediate and frequent training, organisations risk being unprepared and failing to comply with the new obligations expected to become law in 2026.
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