Stress Management in the Workplace

In order to adapt to today’s fast-paced market changes, every new employee must quickly enter the high-speed operation state of the company. Faced with more and more workload and faster pace, employees may start to lose sleep, feel inadequate, be irritable, and even want to escape. All of this is due to stress, which has a negative impact on both the physical and mental health of individuals and the productivity burden of businesses. I have always believed that I have a strong ability to work under pressure, because I have always had good psychological quality. But after several stress tests, I found that my stress score was actually quite high. Even more than 200 points, which means there’s a 50-50 chance my health will collapse in the next two years. This is a very bad prediction. Stress can be linked to any illness. Stress is a nonspecific response, and different people show different physical conditions. In addition to the damage to the body, excessive work stress, the negative impact on the organization is also huge. Because, if the employee’s pressure is too large, it will cause workers’ dissatisfaction, negativity, irresponsibility to the work, in addition, there will be high turnover, absenteeism and other problems. Inadequate and ineffective stress management can lead to huge economic losses. Countries such as Britain and the Netherlands lose 10% of GDP a year to stress at work. According to the WHO, the cost of stress in North America exceeds $200 billion a year.

Therefore, enterprises also need to pay more attention to the psychological state of employees, and appropriately assist employees to relieve pressure. Firstly, leaders or managers can relieve employees’ external pressure by improving the working environment. Such as attention to noise, light, comfort, cleanliness, decoration and other aspects, to provide employees with a pleasant and pleasing to the eye of the working space, conducive to achieve employees and the working environment to adapt, improve the sense of security and comfort of employees, reduce pressure. Secondly, encourage and help employees to improve their psychological quality and ability from the perspective of corporate culture. Enterprises can hire senior professionals as psychological consultants, free of charge to the stress of the staff to provide psychological counseling services.