- Twenty six percent of British bankers believe their job negatively impacts their health and wellbeing.
- That’s according to the third annual review from the Banking Standards Board.
- Investment banking, long seen as the pinnacle of the banking industry, was more likely than other areas to negatively impact workers’ health, the survey showed.
- However, investment bankers “were the least likely to see pressure in their roles as excessive.”
LONDON — Long hours, punishing deadlines, and very little sleep. That’s the outside of view of banking for many not involved in the industry.
A new survey from the UK’s Banking Standards Board released on Thursday seems to confirm that view, with 26% of bankers surveyed saying that “working in their organisation was having a negative impact on their health and wellbeing.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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