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Why Office Oasis?

'I would be devastated if these sessions stopped being offered in the workplace.'
 - EM, regular client, Scottish Executive

To reduce sickness absence:

• Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health.
• Each case of stress-related ill health leads to an average of 30.9 working days lost.
• A total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5.
Source: Health and Safety Executive

To benefit your business:

• Employee commitment to work
• Staff performance and productivity
• Staff turnover or intention to leave
• Staff recruitment and retention
• Customer satisfaction
• Organisational image and reputation

With Office Oasis, you can be absolutely assured of an experienced, professional and useful service to your staff, as evidenced by client feedback on the home page and within each therapy description.

This service has been offered to staff at the Scottish Executive, Victoria Quay in Edinburgh since August 2005, and delivers a strong understanding of workplace pressures, along with helpful advice to clients in terms of managing their stress.

To the question: 'How beneficial is it to have this service available in your workplace?' 99% of service users gave an answer of 7/10 or higher, with 73% giving an answer of 9 or 10/10.

Along with relieving and advising on stress, the service offers effective help with Musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs) - pain and discomfort in the joints and muscles. MSDs are an extremely prevalent concern in the contemporary workplace, and if going unchecked, can lead to chronic conditions which result in absence from work.

The integration of this service into your workplace will not only improve the environment and relations with employees, but can contribute to awards in the SHAW (Scotland's Health at Work) Scheme.

'Every workplace has stress - we just deal with it!'

• Estimates from the 2005/06 survey of self-reported work-related illness (SWI05/06) indicate that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 10.5 million reported lost working days per year in Britain (source: Heath & Safety Executive)
• SWI05/06 prevalence estimate indicated that around 420,000 individuals in Britain believed in 2004/05 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill. The Psychosocial Working Conditions (PWC) surveys indicated that around 1 in 6 of all working individuals thought their job was very or extremely stressful.(source: Heath & Safety Executive)
• Department of health targets which must be adhered to by 2010 require a 20% reduction in work-related ill-health caused by musculo-skeletal disorders and a 30% reduction in working days lost due to musculo-skeletal disorders.(source: Department of Health)
• The annual incidence of work-related mental health problems in Britain in 2005, as estimated from the surveillance schemes OPRA and SOSMI, was approximately 6,400 new cases per year. However, this almost certainly underestimates the true incidence of these conditions in the British workforce. The most recent survey of self-reported work-related illness (SWI05/06) indicates that an estimated 195 000 people first became aware of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in the previous 12 months. (source: Heath & Safety Executive)
• In 2005/06: 30 million days were lost overall (1.3 days per worker), 24 million due to work-related ill health. (source: Heath & Safety Executive)
• 3 out of 5 workers now complain of being stressed at work, and 18.3 million working days a year are lost due to worker stress and work-related musculoskeletal disorders. (source: Heath & Safety Executive)