Stress not only can affect your health, but also can have a negative performance on your job. When you’re not performing up to par while working, the bottom line of your business suffers as a result. In the United States alone stress costs U.S. companies over $300 billion each year from employee turnover, absenteeism and loss of productivity that are all a direct result of stress in the workplace. Not everyone get’s stressed for the same reasons, but there are several common reasons why people are stressed on the job. These reasons include but are not limited to: being underpaid, having to heavy of a workload to handle, poor management, unrealistic job expectations, long hours, work interfering with family and personal time, lack of advancement opportunities in the workplace, job insecurity and undefined expectation in the workplace.
Here are some interesting statistics about stress in the workplace:
- Work causes stress in 83% of all Americans.
- 40% of all workers say they are unproductive as a direct result of stress.
- Stress impacts your bottom line.
- 1 million people are absent everyday as a result of stress.
- 40% of employee turnover is directly related to stress in the workplace.
- Stress reduces memory and focus by up to 25%.
Enmast has put together more data on stress in the workplace that can be seen in the infographic below. Have you dealt or been affected by stress in the workplace? If so, how did you overcome it to be productive at your job?
