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Bosses don't care about wellbeing, say third of workers
February 22, 2012
Many workers do not feel their employers do enough to promote health and wellbeing in the workplace.
A third of British workers do not believe their bosses are interested in workplace health and wellbeing, research suggests.
A poll by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) found that more than two-thirds of workers are not offered any opportunities to improve their health and fitness.
More than one in ten respondents admitted they do no exercise on an average working day.
And almost a fifth of workers rated their stress levels as at least seven out of ten on a typical weekday.
Lisa Purcell, project manager for the charity's 'Health at Work' programme, said: "These survey results paint a worrying picture of workplace health.
"Workers seem to be suffering a toxic combination of unhealthy foods, lack of exercise and high levels of stress. Many of us spend 60 per cent of our waking hours at work and the daily grind can have a serious impact on the health of workers across the UK."
Ms Purcell urged employers to help workers get healthy, with even a few small changes making a "huge difference" to heart health.
Figures from the 2010-11 Labour Force Survey show that 400,000 out of a total of 1,152,000 instances of work-related illnesses involved cases of stress.
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