Coping with Work Stress
Workplace stress is widespread throughout the United States. A certain amount of stress can be beneficial, but too much can make you feel irritable, scattered, and frantic.
Causes of stress in today’s world:
- Juggling the unrelenting, frenetic pace of modern life
- Processing large amounts of information
- Trying to meet the seemingly never-ending demands from all sides
Some facts about workplace stress:
- The World Health Organization has called stress the “health epidemic of the 21st century.”
- Work-related stress causes 120,000 deaths and results in $190 billion in healthcare costs
- 83% of workers in the U.S. report work-related stress.
- Stress causes roughly one million workers to miss work every day.
- 76% of U.S. workers report that their personal relationships are negatively affected by workplace stress.
- Stress causes sleep deprivation for 66% of American workers.
- 41% of workers say stress has caused their work productivity to decline.
- The yearly cost to American businesses of workplace stress is estimated at up to $300 billion a year.
- Dealing with one’s boss, employers’ poor communication practices, heavy workloads, and lack of work-life balance were cited as main contributors to workplace stress.
If you feel overwhelmed by workplace stress, please consider getting some help to:
- identify the sources of your stress.
- sort out your priorities.
- learn to take charge of what you can control and let go of what you can’t.
I have 25 years of experience in working with people to manage their stress. If you are experiencing unmanageable stress, please contact me for help.
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