Understand stress at work

A person is stressed at work when he feel an imbalance between his employer's expectations and the resources he has to meet them

Pressure at work, unmet goals and harassment cause acute stress for employees.

We often neglect it, even though it has harmful consequences for both the individual and the organization.

The mental health of employees has deteriorated significantly in recent years. The Covid-19 health crisis has only amplified the stress, forcing both sides to adapt to the circumstances.

For the employee, stress has serious long-term effects on physical and mental health. In many countries, employees who are constantly stressed end up committing suicide.

Studies have shown that chronic stress reduces our life expectancy. According to data from the September 2021 LifeWorks Mental Health Index, the top 3 most stressful occupations in 2021 will be in arts, entertainment and recreation, health care and support, and wholesale trade.

For the business, it results in turnover, lost working days, demotivation, lower productivity, etc.

However, stress isn't always bad. There is positive stress and it is possible to transform negative stress. This will be the subject of a whole section.

We will then take a serious look at the causes of stress at work, its consequences and the role of employers. For example, these latter are not grateful enough and do not trust their employees. They make the mistake of not assessing the workload.

Or they think that a pay rise is enough to motivate them, when all they're looking for is a simple 'hello' in the morning or 'thank you'.

In fact, managing stress at work is both a personal and a corporate approach.

It should be noted that stress is not an inherent part of professional activities. No, that is not automatically the case.

It is a concern like any other. The difference is that it has a dangerous tendency to amplify the negative effects of other worries that arise at the same time.

Understanding it makes it possible to identify its mechanism in order to better prevent it. And, as it happens, it is developing very rapidly in the professional world.

Everyone's problem remains unresolved because many people stop at the identification stage. Worse still, some people don't notice it until late in the development phase of stress.

For this reason, it is more than important to understand how it works, including its development in professional life.

We then summarize the good and bad practices related to stress at work. All this is included in this online training.