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Briefing: Industry must pull together to tackle unsurprising record high broker stress

By 2024-10-31T10:00:00

Stuart Reid

Heavy workloads, regulatory change and staff shortages are among the reasons why brokers remain so stressed and suffering from poor mental wellbeing, according to insurer research

While it was depressing to read the results of insurer Ecclesiastical’s Broker Wellbeing Survey, published in October 2024, the figures sadly did not come as a surprise.

The annual research revealed that 40% of the 250 brokers polled have very high or high stress levels – the highest proportion of brokers to report feeling this way since Ecclesiastical first started the survey back in 2019.

Although this stat will come as no shock to those that work within our industry, the figure itself remains shocking all the same.

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