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UK workers less stressed due to early computer use

'work-sick' credit Leonid Manchenkov
Dr Brendan Burchell interviewed in The Telegraph

British workers are less stressed in the office than their European counterparts thanks to UK companies’ early adoption of PCs in the late 1980s, a Cambridge academic has claimed.

Stress in the workplace has increased in all EU countries over the last 20 years apart from the UK, recent research shows.

Dr Brendan Burchell, a Sociology lecturer at Cambridge University, said that UK workers are more relaxed as companies in this country were up to a decade ahead of other European countries in installing PCs in their offices.

Cited from The Telegraph. Read the full article here.

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