Nowadays ,many people have to work longer hours,and
they feel more stressed out than before.What are the reasons?what can employers
do to make their life easier?
In today’s workplace stree has become a problematic
issue.Normal stress can be tolerable but exponentially higher stress levels can
spoil an employee’s productivity and his physical and emotional health. The
factors that cause excessive stress are
the increasing competitions ,unrealistic deadlines ,lack of job security and workers’ own excessive
expectations lead to raise stress level at workplace and employers can take
several steps to hit on this problem.
To begin with ,why jobs have become so stressful
,the topmost reason is the higher
competition in the job market these days.Employees who are already hired ,work
hard to save their job because their employers always have options for finding
new employees and replace the existing one. This naturally has negative
psycological effect on workers.Consequently employees have to work for longer
hours to meet their performance targets because the unseen threat of firing is
always there .Apart from that ,excessively high workloads with unfeasible
targets,makes people feel pressurized.In the same context,insufficient workload makes them
feel that their skills are undervalued and this also cause stress.The
bottommost reason is that people’s aspirations from the offices have reached to
a higher position and they are ready to sacrifice their personal life for the
sake of promotions.So ,this shift of mind setup has also contributed to the
increasing work pressure.
As far as solution are concerned ,employers can take
a lot of modus operandi to cope with workplace stress.To begin with,despite the
higher competition in business
,employers should ensure a healthy working environment and support their
workers morally and financially in order to sustain in the long run.A company
cannot survive without experience and dedicated workers and persistant fright
of dismissal cannot ensure a healthy workplace.Moreover,if overwork is causing
stress in the business ,then they should try to reduce people ’workload .They
should ensure that their employees’targets are challenging ,but realistic ,and
make sure that employees take their full holiday entitlement.Finally,the
employers should have a friendly relationship with the workers and have
meetings to listen to their problem.Thus ,in a condition employees’ jobs are
secured ,they can then give better
outputs.
To sum up,higher competitions in the job market and
people’s aim to reach higher are the main reasons for stress in the workplace
and the employers have a lot to contribute to improving this situation.A
healthy workplace is essential for good working conditions for workers.