Job Stress:
Stress at Work II
Stress in the Workplace II
Work Related Stress II
Stress Management in the Workplace II
Stress
Management at Work II
Stress in the Work Place
II Student Stress
Statistics and Stress in the Workplace.
Statistics can be rather telling especially when it comes to
stress in the workplace. Stress in the workplace costs the United
States business segment more than 300 billion dollars every year.
Stress in the workplace is important to employees because stress
can cause both physical and emotional problems. Stress in the
workplace can lead to migraines, tense muscles, heart attacks,
insomnia as well as problems with relationships.
As stress in the workplace grows, an employee may be less
motivated to work or come to work in the first place. Some of the
costs for companies associated with stress in the workplace
include workers' compensation awards as well as tort and FELA
judgments. Also, there are costs related to absenteeism,
accidents, medical, legal, and insurance costs and training costs
related to employee turnover.
Just how much of a financial burden does stress in the workplace
have on companies? A 1990 study by the firm of Foster Higgins &
Company in New Jersey showed corporate health benefits cost the
average company a stunning 45 percent of its after-tax profits.
Several other studies and surveys have indicated stress in the
workplace has increased in the past few decades.
According to surveys by Princeton Survey Research Associates,
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company, St. Paul Fire and
Marine Insurance Company, The Families and Work Institute and Yale
University, stress in the workplace is epidemic.
Stress in the workplace is a real concern for the 25 percent of
employees who view their jobs as the No. 1 stressor in their lives
– more stressful than their marriage, credit card debt and
difficult neighbors.
More than 40 percent of employees describe their careers as very
or extremely stressful. Moreover, 29 percent of workers feel quite
a bit or extremely stressed at work.
Compared to individuals in the past who devoted more time to
family and leisure activities, the majority of employees felt they
have more stress in the workplace. More than one-fourth of those
surveyed said they were often or very often burned out or stressed
by their work.
One of the reasons employees feel more stress in the workplace is
because they have more demanding hours. According to a 1999
government report, the number of hours worked increased 8 percent
in one generation to an average 47 hrs per week with 20 percent
working 49 hours per week.
In other countries, the trend has been for employees to work fewer
hours. But one International Labor Organization study revealed
workers in the United States logged the equivalent of an extra
40-hour workweek in 2000 compared to 1990.
Americans also work harder than their European counterparts,
according to studies. In one 2001 survey, nearly 40 percent of
employees in the United States described their office environment
as most like a real life Survivor (television) program.
Other statistics also back up the fact that stress in the
workplace has become epidemic. The 2000 annual "Attitudes In The
American Workplace VI" Gallup Poll found 14 percent of respondents
had felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn't do
it. Also, 80 percent of workers feel stress on the job with nearly
half saying they needed help in learning how to manage stress in
the workplace. Furthermore, 42 percent say their coworkers need
help managing stress in the workplace.
A 2000 Integra Survey found 10 percent of respondents said they
work in an atmosphere where physical violence has occurred due to
stress in the workplace. Of the people surveyed in this particular
group, 42 percent said yelling and other verbal abuse is
commonplace.
The survey also revealed the following:
1. Sixty-five percent of workers confided stress in the workplace
had caused difficulties.
2. Twenty-nine percent had yelled at co-workers because of
workplace stress.
3. Fourteen percent said they work where machinery or equipment
has been damaged because of workplace rage. In addition, 2 percent
said they had personally struck someone.
4. Twelve percent had called in sick because of job stress.
5. More than half said they often spend 12-hour days on work
related duties.
6. Nineteen percent had quit a previous position because of job
stress.
7. Almost one in four have been driven to tears because of
workplace stress.
8. Sixty-two percent routinely find that they end the day with
work-related neck pain.
9. Forty-four percent reported stressed-out eyes, 38 percent
complained of hurting hands.
10. Thirty-four percent reported difficulty in sleeping because
they were too stressed-out.
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