At the risk of stereotyping, workplace stress would seem to have joined the weather and sports failure as a fairly standard topic of conversation for "whinging poms." This chapter does not examine whether these complaints are valid or whether workers in the United Kingdom experience more workplace stress than those in other nations, but it does seek to explore the extent of "stress" among particular groups of employees in the United Kingdom, using a variety of secondary sources. In doing so it demonstrates the use of a sociological analysis that sets "stress" in its social and institutional context.