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Workplace Stress on the Rise
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2003.tb10276.x
Subject(s) - workforce , stress (linguistics) , suite , job stress , management , demographic economics , business , political science , labour economics , economics , job satisfaction , law , philosophy , linguistics
According to Fortune magazine, stress‐related problems are reaching the executive suite. The reasons are variations on the same things that cause stress for middle managers and frontline workers: a tough economy, the pressure to exceed the last success, and not being heard. The American Institute of Stress estimates that the results of job stress cost American business more than $300 billion a year. This article mentions several studies that report trends and statistics in the workforce related to experiencing on‐the‐job stress.