These are the five most stressful jobs

If you're a welfare professional, you're likely to be more stressed in your jobs.

A new report by the Health and Safety Executive has looked into the most stress-inducing jobs in the UK.

The study found that the most stressed workers were those working in a professional capacity.

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Of these, Welfare Professionals were the worst affected:​

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Followed by Nursing and Midwifery professionals, Legal professionals, Teaching and then Business, research and administrative professionals.

Across all occupations, the more people working at a company the more stressed the employees were.

The researchers also found that around 161 in 10,000 workers in the UK had experienced a case of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in the past year.

This figure has risen in recent years.

HT IFL Science

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