Play Music at Work to Fight the Pressure
More and more companies are now offering their staff the opportunity to take time out from their work schedule for personal development. We all know that pressure is essential to success and helps to keep us motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to stress which undermines performance, is costly to employers and causes illness. The Health & Safety Executive defines stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them”. 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5. Approximately 5 million people in the UK feel “very” or “extremely” stressed by their work.
66% of medical consultations concern stress-related conditions and the cost to British business from sickness due to employee absenteeism is estimated at £11 billion per annum. I found some interresting up-to-date statistics regarding corporate music completing these lines and the importance of music in the workplace. It’s proven in an Article of the 29th of Apr 2009 that pregnant women facing stress at work ‘more likely to have underweight babies. Expectant mothers facing stress at work are more likely to have underweight or premature babies, a new study suggests. So what do we wait for playing music?