Workplace stress impedes productivity: Experts

Harassment, bullying and negative milieu at workplace contribute to anxiety, stress and depression among employees, resulting in interruption in productivity, said experts yesterday.

Due to anxiety and depression at workplace, the world loses around US $1 trillion every year, they told a workshop titled, “Stress Management and Staff Wellbeing”, at IEDCR conference hall in the capital, said a press release.

Organised by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Action Against Hunger (ACF), it was chaired by Rezaul Karim Shamim, DGHS programme manager of non-communicable disease control, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.

Steve Williams, ACF deputy country director, and Dr MM Jalal Uddin, associate professor of National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, were present.