Workplace yoga can indeed lower employee stress, research review suggests

Yoga didn't appear to influence heart health, but workplace yoga did have a positive effect on mental health and in stress reduction in particular

People who get to do yoga at work may be less stressed out than their peers who don’t, a research review suggests.

At any given time, as many as one in six working people suffer from stress and other symptoms related to mental illness, researchers note in Occupational Medicine. Yoga is one of many approaches a growing number of employers are using to combat stress and improve workers’ mental health, but research to date has offered a mixed picture of how well these efforts are working.
 

For the current study, researchers examined data from 13 trials with about 1,300 participants. Some