Thursday, July 26, 2007

Working for Johnson and Darling sounds stressful

at 7/26/2007 01:29:00 pm

It would appear that the Department of Trade and Industry - now called the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - has become an increasingly stressful place to work over the past few years.

Apparently, in 2004-05, of the people off work with illness, 5.6% were off due to stress-related problems. However, the following year, under the leadership of Alan Johnson the renamed for a week Department for Productivity, Energy and Industry saw the figure double to 11.5%.

Johnson wasn't there for long though, and in 2006 Alastair Darling took over from him. A new regime, less stress? No. Under Darling's leadership the figure almost doubled again to 19.8%. I bet they were pleased when he sodded off to the Treasury.

The real question is whether John Hutton can de-stress the place?


 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...
26 Jul 2007 14:21:00  

Now that they can be called DoBERRmen perhaps they will be dishing the stress out instead.

Ed said...
26 Jul 2007 14:39:00  

Is stress the new upset stomach?

Can you get stressed on a Friday and still manage to come in the following Monday or are you out for a few weeks at a time.

Sounds more like "give people an inch..."

That's not to say I think all employment law is nonsense by the way.

Rickytshirt said...
26 Jul 2007 15:09:00  

Not if his constituents are anything to go by. Me being one of them.

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