Almost seven in 10 workers aged between 18 and 24 have called in sick due to stress in the last year, according to a report into workplace stress by a UK-based provider of financial products and services.
This figure falls to half of all people over the age of 55, a reduction of 40 per cent, The Telegraph reported.
Experts said that young workers may feel more stressed than the older generation because they have more expectation on their shoulders.
Young people may also be more aware of the telltale signs of stress than older people, they believe.
The report found that the proportion of people who have called in sick over the last year due to stress gradually increased as people get younger.
For example, while 67 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds called in sick over the last year, this figure fell to 54 per cent among 25 to 34 year olds and to 47 per cent among 35 to 44 year olds.
Only 43 per cent of people aged between 45 and 55 called in sick. This figure rose slightly, to 49 per cent, to workers over the age of 55.
Overall, the study said that half of the 2,000 people it surveyed have felt more stress since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008,
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