One in four 'works all day without break'

Yes, I'm putting my hand up, Steve.

Can't say it's surprising...

A company I used to work for had some severe understaffing issues -small team, then suddenly about half of them were either pregnant or hospitalised within the space of about two months. Those of us who remained were all stressed out to the max trying to juggle the workload.

We desperately called and emailed head office asking for funding for a temp, or for someone to be transferred to us on secondment... what they did was send in a trainer to do a "Stress Management In The Workplace" course with us, or to put it another way, they dragged us away from our already overflowing inboxes for an entire morning so that a self-styled consultant could explain to us that if we felt stressed, we should explain our concerns to management and constructively ask for practical support such as funding for a temp or for someone to be transferred to us on oh no I've gone crosseyed.

This week that's been true, but our trade is so up and down that if you work long hours you can get days off to do the paper work, lol.