Teaching labelled as one of the most stressful jobs in Britain
Figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that teaching is among the most stressful jobs you can do in Britain.
The data also shows that teachers are twice as likely to suffer work-related stress than the average, with 2,460 cases of work-related stress per 100,000 being cited in the findings.
This was twice the average across all industries of 1,230 cases per 100,000 in the three-year period averaged over 2014-15 to 2016-17.
Professional occupations had a higher rate of work-related stress than other types of jobs, such as sales and customer service or administrative jobs.
The research also concluded that welfare professionals had the highest rate of 4,420 cases of work-related stress per 100,000 people.
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