Office Stress – How to Kill Your Productivity
Have you ever wondered what separates the companies that retain employees versus those that end up with a revolving door? In this economy, not even the threat of loosing ones job can compare to having to cope with extreme amounts of office stress. Stress management is not a new thing. Hopefully most people are aware by now of many of the negative effects that stress will have on a person over time. Increased heart attacks, high blood pressure, and high rates of depression and anxiety are just a few. While many supervisors view an employee’s inability to handle continuous amounts of extreme stress as a weakness, it is not. The human body is not designed to be able to keep up with the levels of office stress that most employees face today. The debilitating effects of office stress will be seen over time in your health, in your ability to focus and complete tasks at work, and your willness to get up in the morning and continue trudging along in the face of an uncaring supervisor. To be fair, supervisors experience their own levels of extreme office stress. The real solution must come from the top most management and involves implementing effective plans to cope with change, adding flexibility to how and when employees can complete their work, understanding the amount of work assigned, and not expecting employees to constantly have to accept more tasks than they can hope to ever complete. This type of management only leads to unhappy employees who will bail at the first opportunity and who will need increased amounts of sick time to cope with the health effects of too much office stress.