Mies istuu tietokoneen ääressä väsyneen näköisenä.
Obstacles. 26% of respondents to the Working Conditions Survey said that stress, fatigue, inattention and other psychological difficulties hindered their performance at work to a large or fairly large extent.

38% of university graduates experience the threat of work exhaustion – Akava proposes brief psychotherapy as part of occupational health care

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According to Maria Löfgren, President of Akava, we now need to invest in supporting well-being at work and work capacity in a variety of ways. One way would be to include brief psychotherapy in occupational health care services.

The article is translated by DeepL.

38% of university graduates consider the risk of work-related fatigue to be high or fairly high in their own work, according to a recent survey by Akava Works. 50% of respondents considered the risk to be low, while 12% said they had no risk at all.

The situation looks worse for those working in the public sector. 48% of them rated their own risk of burnout as fairly high or high.

This is a billion-dollars per year issue.
- Akava's President Maria Löfgren

"The main causes of harmful workload are excessive workload, rush, disruptive interruptions and multi-tasking. Working outside working hours and the blurring of the boundary between working time and leisure time also caused the perceived harmful workload," says researcher Arttu Piri in a press release (in Finnish) from Akava.

Maria Löfgren, President of Akava, believes that supporting well-being at work and work capacity and preventing disability are very important in economic and human terms.

"This is an issue worth billions of euros a year, affecting public finances, employment, productivity, tax revenue and the occupational pension system," Löfgren said in the release.

"Our proposals for solutions include, among other things, clarifying the Occupational Safety and Health Act and introducing a new regulation to manage psychosocial stress and support mental capacity at work. We also propose to strengthen mental health services and support for coping in occupational health services, with an emphasis on prevention. We propose that brief psychotherapy be integrated into occupational health services."

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