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Half of Britons suffer stress at work

More than half of Britons suffer stress at work, according to a new survey.

Research by time management company Time/system in the run-up to National Stress Awareness Day on November 7 has found that 53% of Britons are stressed at work due to time pressures.

Out of 7,500 workers questioned, 30% said they did the work of two people and 26% said they did the work of one-and-a-half people.

Up to 68% wanted more time in the day to either spend at work or with the family.

And three-quarters of those surveyed said they found it difficult to balance work and home life.

Time/system spokesman Tony Rackham said: "These results have been fascinating - business people are obviously feeling stressed out and that is not good for them, their families or their jobs.

"Yet there are simple steps everyone can take to beat stress."

Time/system, which is designed to save users time to help reduce stress, has come up with five tips to beat stress:

Pick a day and say no to every request made of you for 24 hours to reduce current workloads; take five minutes and list everything you can do in a morning and afternoon and assign everything else for the next day or delegate; plan tomorrow today and create guestimates for time needed to complete each activity; monitor all interruptions in a day, and reduce time pressures by cutting back on the most common interruptions for help, information and gossip; try and group activities, such as spending half an hour each day returning all phone calls, rather than interrupting yourself every time someone calls.

Story filed: 05:17 Thursday 1st November 2001 ANANOVA