Employers, including those that offer IT jobs, should incorporate stress education in their employees’ work programmes.
That is according to the Stress Management Society (SMS), which suggests that employees need to be made aware of stress in order to be able spot it both in themselves and their co-workers.
Neil Shah, director of the Stress Management Society, said: "Employers need to educate employees to recognise the signs and symptoms of stress not just in themselves, but in their colleagues as well."
He went on to say that the matter was of particular importance as stress can have a particularly dangerous affect on the heart.
If people cannot recognise that they are suffering from stress, there is no way of them countering the problem and seeking help, Shah added.
SMS made its calls for better stress education after mental health charity Mind revealed that seven per cent of people are now taking antidepressants as a result of stress caused by work.
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