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The Impact of Stress
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a national business group with a focus on health,
recently took a survey among 275 employers to find out the key issues affecting
employee productivity. Their findings show the stress was identified by 72% of
the employers as a key issue relative to productivity.
Stress has been building in the workplace as employers find it increasingly
necessary to have more work done by fewer employees. The result has been that employees have been asked to take on
additional responsibilities, work longer hours, cross train with other departments, and do more multitasking.
After stress in the survey, 59% said a key issue affecting employee productivity were personal and family issues. Personal and
family issues include such items as day care, family illnesses, marital stress, financial troubles, and other personal issues.
Following close behind in third place, 58% cited chronic medical conditions. This issue barely squeaked ahead of unscheduled
absences.
Stress becomes an issue because so many people are unable to deal with stress. A certain amount of stress is necessary and an
important part of daily life. However people often will ignore this routine stress until it amplifies and starts to take a toll on their
life.
What you can do
As an employer, you are able to do many things to help reduce stress in the workplace. Here are just some suggestions:
The bottom line with stress is that an employer can have a huge impact on the stress levels of the employees. Through proper
training and proper site management, stress can be significantly reduced.
Also consider that good salespeople are not necessarily born. Some make it look so easy that it seems like native ability, but just
like any job done well, a talent for selling takes training, practice and commitment. Yes, there’s an art to attaining superior sales,
but art is not magic. If you combine the right characteristics that assessments can help you discern with the right training, hiring
top salespeople is a science that enhances the art.
©2008 Max Impact Corporation
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a national business group with a focus on health,
recently took a survey among 275 employers to find out the key issues affecting
employee productivity. Their findings show the stress was identified by 72% of
the employers as a key issue relative to productivity.
Stress has been building in the workplace as employers find it increasingly
necessary to have more work done by fewer employees. The result has been that employees have been asked to take on
additional responsibilities, work longer hours, cross train with other departments, and do more multitasking.
After stress in the survey, 59% said a key issue affecting employee productivity were personal and family issues. Personal and
family issues include such items as day care, family illnesses, marital stress, financial troubles, and other personal issues.
Following close behind in third place, 58% cited chronic medical conditions. This issue barely squeaked ahead of unscheduled
absences.
Stress becomes an issue because so many people are unable to deal with stress. A certain amount of stress is necessary and an
important part of daily life. However people often will ignore this routine stress until it amplifies and starts to take a toll on their
life.
What you can do
As an employer, you are able to do many things to help reduce stress in the workplace. Here are just some suggestions:
- increase the lighting, particularly natural lighting, it has many workplaces as possible
- do not overcrowd your employees, provide as much space as possible
- spread live plants throughout the workplace as they create calmness
- align an individual employees ability to handle stress with the normal stress of each position -- the use of employee of
assessments is vital in this endeavor - encourage employees to cut absenteeism through programs that reward attendance or unused sick pay
- provide stress management classes for your employees -- companies like Max Impact offers viable stress management
classes on-site or online
The bottom line with stress is that an employer can have a huge impact on the stress levels of the employees. Through proper
training and proper site management, stress can be significantly reduced.
Also consider that good salespeople are not necessarily born. Some make it look so easy that it seems like native ability, but just
like any job done well, a talent for selling takes training, practice and commitment. Yes, there’s an art to attaining superior sales,
but art is not magic. If you combine the right characteristics that assessments can help you discern with the right training, hiring
top salespeople is a science that enhances the art.
©2008 Max Impact Corporation
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| November 25 2007 |