Richard Wynne from the work research centre is an amazing guy - he has been researching stress in the workplace for over 20 years and one of his latest publications is a three year - 2000 person study in six european countries. The project is called the stress impact survey and it is the best piece of research work done on stress in the workplace EVER !!
What is astounding is that the best in Europe at getting sick people back to work are the Dutch with a good 63% return to work rate.
Ireland, sadly, lags way behind with less than half that number.
As Richard says "In Ireland, we starve our people back to work" - not good not good.
Another damning statistic from Richard - for people who are 12 months on disability, they have a less than a 1% chance of getting back into the workplace.
This is not a Dickens Novel my friends - this is Ireland in the noughties - pretty sad - all that money and shared among so few people.
The Alchemism Foundation will start to develop disability management programs which will work to increase this rate of helping people back to work
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