Dr Marcus Fila is  a professor of Management at Hope College, Michigan and a researcher in Stress at work. He also helps companies understand the impact or stress in the Workplace through his company https://www.easeworkstress.com/.

Dr Fila believes that stress is the biggest contributing factor to staff leaving, in this edition of our podcast Ian and Dr Fila discuss stress at work, its potential causes and what employers can do to reduce it .

• Research into stress
• Impact of stress on staff retention
• Illegitimate roles 
• Types of Intervention 
• Re writing job descriptions to reduce stress at the workplace.

Dr Fila’s recommended reading;  Anything by Sir Cary Cooper - professor of Organisation Phsycology and Health  at Manchester Business School  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Cooper 

Dr Fila’s linked in profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-fila-65144732/

Dr Fila’s website: https://www.easeworkstress.com/

The Workplace Wellbeing Podcast is supported by the WorkTech Group, which supplies cloud based tools for the modern workforce manager. The Group owns, ShopWorks, a cloud based Employee Scheduling Software and Labour Management Software provider. fastP.A.Y.E is an Advance Salary App and On Demand Pay solution. SolvedBy.Ai provides AI powered Labour Demand Forecasting solutions and Employee Retention Software.