Stress and mental health issues remain a real problem within the accountancy community. The latest poll from caba, the charity for ICAEW members, students and their families, discovered a massive eight in 10 (79%) accountants feel the profession was becoming synonymous with stress and burn-out.
Accountants said the biggest day-to-day challenges are workloads (cited by 87% of respondents), and the long hours (72%). The complexity of the work, with no room for error was highlighted by 63% of those surveyed.
Hardly surprising then that more than half (56%) of accountants’ researchers spoke to said they were ‘suffering’.
Read the full story in the April issue of PQ magazine, out now: https://issuu.com/pqpublishing/docs/april_2022_combined
