Stress at Work
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Report (NIOSH)
Highlighted statistics from the report:
•40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful;
•25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives;
•Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago;
•29% of workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work;
•26 percent of workers said they were “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work”;
•Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems.
Attitudes in the American Workplace VII
Highlighted statistics from the report:
•80% of workers feel stress on the job, nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help;
•14% of respondents had felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn’t;
•25% have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress, 10% are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent;
•9% are aware of an assault or violent act in their workplace and 18% had experienced some sort of threat or verbal intimidation in the past year
