{"id":5520,"date":"2021-11-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:34:50","slug":"employee-stress-is-probably-costing-you-more-than-you-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/employee-stress-is-probably-costing-you-more-than-you-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Stress Is Probably Costing You More Than You Realize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just about everyone has heard horror stories about how stressed the American worker is.  If you\u2019re a business owner, perhaps you believe that your employees are exempt.  That stress doesn\u2019t impact them because, after all, you\u2019ve created a great company and an exceptional work environment, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the numbers don\u2019t lie, and your employees are almost certainly more stressed out than you realize.  According to the latest data, here\u2019s a snapshot of stress and how it impacts our nation\u2019s workforce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scope and Scale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing to understand about the issue is just how vast it is.  A staggering 76% of American adults cite the workplace as the leading contributor of their stress.  On top of that, according to the latest statistics, stress costs a whopping $300 billion dollars, every year due to sick days and the cost of treating illnesses and conditions arising from stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical, Mental and Interpersonal Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just merely that stress causes people mental anguish.  That\u2019s certainly a part of the equation, but stress also has a physical dimension, with fully 77% of employees reporting at least one physical symptom caused by stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse, more than half of all employees (54%) report that stress has caused them to fight with friends, family and loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Host Of Other Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to that, nearly half of all employees (48%) report reduce sleep\u2014both quality and quantity\u2014due to stress and 33% of employees report that they feel they are living with extreme stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps worst of all are the facts that 87% of employees report feeling emotionally disconnected and 60% say they are so unhappy due to stress that they\u2019re giving serious consideration to quitting their current jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What You Can Do About Office Stress<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All of the above constitutes the bad news, and as you can see, there\u2019s plenty of it.\u00a0 Fortunately, stress isn\u2019t an insurmountable problem and there are many stress relief gifts<\/a> you can get for your employees, and others that they can do for themselves to help reduce stress and mitigate its worst effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encouraging Employees to Destress<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first and easiest recommendation on this front is mobility.  Encourage your employees to get up and move around at regular intervals.  Sitting at a desk all day in essentially the same position is bad for your mind, body and soul.  A ten or fifteen minute walking break a couple of times a day will do wonders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even better, research has indicated that walking around in a natural setting, even for as little as fifteen minutes, can reduce your cortisol level by 50% (cortisol being the so called \u201cstress hormone\u201d).  That\u2019s huge, so if there\u2019s a park or some type of wooded area near your workplace, that should be your go to spot for walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to that, encourage your employees to listen to music while they work.  That may not always be possible depending on exactly what your employees are doing for you, but when it is possible, music has almost magical qualities and can go a long way toward reducing stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are other things like visualization, breathing exercises, stress balls and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is that there\u2019s no one magic bullet solution to the stress problem, but the ideas presented here can be mixed and matched to create a solution perfectly tailored to your employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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