Responding to our 2017 YouGov health survey, the most comprehensive and robust we have carried out to date, eight out of 10 secondary school teachers and leaders (81 per cent) told us that they have an inability to switch off outside of work, burdened as so many of you are with current excessive workloads.
Nearly half (45 per cent) also told us that they felt they do not achieve the right balance between their work and home lives.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this same percentage of respondents said that the psychological, physical and behavioural symptoms they had suffered – including difficulty sleeping, panic attacks, recurring headaches, stress and anxiety – were a clear consequence of their work and of this lack of balance.
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