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There is a risk when you comment in any way critically on reports on workplace stress that you come across as some form of Victorian mill-owner, a keen believer in cold showers, beatings and the maintenance of staff morale through the periodic execution of slackers. Or maybe, as in the most recent Acas publication on the topic, there are genuinely things which could and should usefully have been said about responsibility for workplace stress and weren’t. The workplace policy document “Stress and anxiety at work: personal or cultural?” was issued earlier this month. Based on a survey of 2,000 employees it pings up a number of statistics which are not all they seem and it does not draw the conclusions from them which you might expect. So for starters, the key question is whether the 2,000 respondents to the survey felt “stressed or anxious” about work. A full 66% said that they did. Two thirds! What a searing indictment of industrial relations in the UK! But ...