Main Causes of Stress at Work
Everyone feels stress in the workplace at one time or another. That ranges from the guy who cleans the toilets to the guy who flies in a company jet to get to the meeting in the next city. The causes are many and common among businesses. Many corporations spend millions of dollars trying to relieve stress by offering bonuses, perks and seminars, but few ever address the real problems facing the office space.
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The Bad Boss
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Ask 100 employees in various fields about their biggest cause of stress, and likely all of them will point to bosses who go crazy over simple mistakes, who scream and holler, who don't know how to do their jobs -- the list can be somewhat endless.
Too Few People and Too Much Work
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Ten people are needed to make something happen and there are only five people in the room. The doubling of workloads is one of the biggest causes of stress as people internalize their emotions to get gigantic jobs done. Eventually that stress erodes work.
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Office Politics
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The pressures of office politics can spread even for people not caught up in the head games. Basically, people form alliances or perceived alliances and that hinders the work for those around them. Stress escalates as people worry about other factions.
Unsure Future
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In good or bad times, questions about a company's stability always seem to cause stress in the workplace. People are worried if they will have a job the next day instead of focusing on the job at hand.
Bad Office Space
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Quite simply, if a place looks like a dump on the inside (beaten up furniture, malfunctioning printers, outdated phones), then the staff is not going to be happy. That unhappiness ramps up the stress.
Technical Problems
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If the Internet is down or the production line has broken a belt, then the level of stress is quickly boosted. Technical problems and not knowing how to fix them can cause numerous office headaches as people get angry over issues out of their control.
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