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4th September 2018
04:59pm BST
He said:
"When it takes over and it tends to reduce performance rather than increase performance and it’s very difficult to know when that is. "It’s a bit like the story of a frog getting into the cold water which is slowly boiled up and he doesn’t notice that it becomes lethally hot because of the slow increase in his surroundings and this happens a lot, especially in the workplace. Demands increase and stress becomes disabling rather than enabling."However, despite the prominence of anxiety and mental health related issues in the workplace, many employees are still avoiding telling their bosses that they are suffering. Kelly said that although more and more people are speaking about mental heath, there is still very much a stigma attached to it. "Other research (...) showed that 50 percent of people with stress at work wouldn’t reveal it to their employer, even though about 40 percent of people had taken time off because of it," he said.
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