Stress Awareness & Measurement
Making workplace stress visible before it becomes costly
Workplace stress is difficult to recognise.
Today’s work environment is more demanding than ever.
Constant change, uncertainty, increased workloads, digital overload and financial pressures mean many employees operate under relentless pressure.
At the same time, changes in the way we work — including hybrid and remote working — have reduced many of the sources of connection, reassurance and support that help people cope with those demands.
Together, these increasing demands and diminishing sources of support create the conditions in which workplace stress easily builds up.
Unmanaged stress affects both employees and organisations.
Beyond its impact on employee health and wellbeing, unmanaged stress has significant organisational consequences, including increased absenteeism, staff turnover, reduced productivity, poor decision-making, safety incidents and reputational damage.
The challenge is that stress is difficult to see.
Stress is complex, personal and often develops gradually. It has also become normalised in many workplaces, meaning the early warning signs are often missed.
As a result, unhealthy stress often goes unnoticed until has become a far more complex, costly and difficult problem to address.
Early awareness enables early action
Without a reliable and structured way of measuring workplace stress, individuals struggle to recognise when healthy pressure has become harmful stress, whilst teams and leaders have little visibility of emerging risks.
Measuring stress creates the awareness needed to take preventative action before problems escalate.
Using our validated AURA assessment, employees gain a clearer understanding of their stress resilience, while teams and leaders gain visibility of emerging risks — enabling targeted action before problems escalate.
“We now believe measuring stress resilience is more important than engagement”
— Treesan Boonma, Head of HR, APAC, Booking.comOur Solutions
Workplace stress is experienced by individuals, but its causes often originate within teams, leadership and organisational systems.
AURA combines confidential individual assessments with team and organisational insight, enabling targeted action at every level.
For Individuals
- Personal Stress Assessments to help employees understand their stress level, recognise warning signs and identify personalised actions to strengthen resilience.
- Resilience Action Planning Workshops to help employees turn assessment insights into practical resilience action plans.
- Personal Stress Resilience Coaching to provide one-to-one support for employees identified as higher risk.
For Teams
- Team Health Assessment to evaluate team burnout risk, identify pressure points and highlight priorities for improvement.
- Team Resilience Workshop to help teams interpret their results and co-create practical actions to strengthen team resilience.
- Manager Coaching to equip leaders with the skills and confidence to support team wellbeing and resilience.
For Organisations
- Organisational Stress Insights providing organisation-wide reporting that highlights stress hotspots, systemic drivers and trends over time.
- Leadership Action Planning Workshops to help leaders prioritise interventions based on organisational findings.
- Strategic Advisory to support the design and implementation of evidence-based workplace resilience interventions.
AURA's integrated assessment and reporting platform provides the insight needed to identify resilience risks, target interventions and measure improvement over time.
Our solutions are designed to build stress awareness and resilience at every level of the organisation:
The AURA Stress Resilience Assessment has been used across 20+ countries since 2016 by organisations operating in high-pressure environments across finance, legal, technology, media, professional services and other sectors.
Validated Model · Scientifically grounded · Proven methodology · Rigorous yet practical
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