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18 April, 2001Extensive changes in today's world of work are resulting in a reduced number of jobs plus higher requirements on workers.
GLOBAL: Stress and burnout is a growing problem for many workers, in particular non-manual workers, and the subject is generating increasing interest and debate. Although at first considered a phenomenon specific to the developed countries, there is more and more evidence that stress and burnout is spreading to the developing world as well.
What with extensive transformations being carried out in today's workplace, due in great part to economic globalisation, accompanied by restructuring, lean production, subcontracting, outsourcing, as well as new information technology, individual workers are finding higher requirements being placed upon them.
With this in mind, the IMF, in cooperation with its Swedish non-manual workers' affiliate SIF, is holding its first seminar on the subject, called "Stress and Burnout: a Growing Problem for Non-Manual Workers," on April 23-24, 2001, in Djurönäset, Sweden. Some 40 participants from 15 countries will attend, including scientific experts in this field. The agenda will focus on work-related stress and its consequences, the global costs of stress and burnout, and possibilities for a trade union response to this growing concern. There will be a presentation on the development of stress and burnout in the 1990s, as well as a study carried out on a group of non-manual workers on extended sick leave.
On April 25, immediately following the two-day discussions, a meeting of the IMF's Working Group on Non-Manual Workers will be held to evaluate the above-mentioned seminar and to further develop a programme of activities for the IMF Non-Manual Workers' Department.
What with extensive transformations being carried out in today's workplace, due in great part to economic globalisation, accompanied by restructuring, lean production, subcontracting, outsourcing, as well as new information technology, individual workers are finding higher requirements being placed upon them.
With this in mind, the IMF, in cooperation with its Swedish non-manual workers' affiliate SIF, is holding its first seminar on the subject, called "Stress and Burnout: a Growing Problem for Non-Manual Workers," on April 23-24, 2001, in Djurönäset, Sweden. Some 40 participants from 15 countries will attend, including scientific experts in this field. The agenda will focus on work-related stress and its consequences, the global costs of stress and burnout, and possibilities for a trade union response to this growing concern. There will be a presentation on the development of stress and burnout in the 1990s, as well as a study carried out on a group of non-manual workers on extended sick leave.
On April 25, immediately following the two-day discussions, a meeting of the IMF's Working Group on Non-Manual Workers will be held to evaluate the above-mentioned seminar and to further develop a programme of activities for the IMF Non-Manual Workers' Department.