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More than half of Brits feel so stressed at the end of their working day they turn to alcohol to relax, a study shows. Does working from home mean less stress? And what do you do to relax at the end of your day?

A survey of over 3,000 employees discovered one in ten feel stressed even before they start work and six percent say they feel stressed all of the time.

A third claimed to have called in sick because they were feeling stressed and 12 percent said they had quit a job altogether.

57 percent also said they had recently felt the need for a beer or a glass of wine when they got home to get over their day.

A spokesperson for Medicash, which commissioned the study, said: "Worryingly, a third of Britons admitted in the survey to having deliberately drunk too much in a bid to relax and escape work stress."

Is homeworking the cure?

We wondered what the survey would look like if it were taken by homeworking employees and sole-traders.

Does working from home mean less stress?

What do you think?

Were you more stressed as an office-worker? What do you do now to relax at the end of your working day? Let us know in the comments below.

San Sharma
San is community manager at Enterprise Nation, as well as the voice of @e_nation on Twitter.

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