Australia's workers stressed and overweight, says study...

The average Australian employee is stressed and overweight - about half the 30,000 employees surveyed were physically inactive, the report found.

The study, by the University of Wollongong in partnership with Workplace Health Association Australia (WHAA), spans 10 years of data.

Workers also showed other risk factors.

The report found that 65.1% of the employees had reported "moderate to high stress levels" and that 41% had psychological distress levels considered to be "at risk".

The WHAA said that trends around employee health had been examined over a 5-to-10-year period and that the industries covered included banking and finance, legal, transport and storage, in both metropolitan and rural areas.

The study said its objectives were to present an analysis of employee health data from the five organisations, all members of the WHAA, who participated in the project. Full story...

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