Stress at the Workplace Blog 1

 

Summary

The article I chose to discuss is named "Stress at Work". This article talks about the causes of stress in the workplace as well as the warning signs. The author of this article lists a variety of different solutions that will help with the stress retained from work. This article stated that stress from work is not completely a horrible thing but that sometimes a little bit of stress could help in certain ways such as staying focused, becoming energetic and allows you to have the ability to face new challenges in the workplace. Being stress at work is a common feeling and this article offers 5 different tips in order to help control your stressful feelings in your workplace. The tips included are reaching out to others, supporting your health by exercising and nutrition, do not skimp on sleep, prioritize, and organize and lastly, break your bad habits that contribute to workplace stress.

These tips explained how the more sleep you get, the more equipped you are to tackle your responsibilities needed for your job and could better cope with stress. It also explains that being overly focused with work often makes you forget your health and that allowing yourself to have good nutrition and exercise, you will be more resilient to stress.

This article also explains that stress often makes you feel uncertain, helpless or out of control and states certain actionable ways to regain your sense of control over your job such as clarifying what your job description is, requesting to transfer, ask for new duties or to take some time off.

The author further explains that people, other than yourself, could help reduce stress in the workplace which can be our managers and employers. Some ways to help reduce stress for your employees that the author listed is to consult your employees, communicate with your employees one on one, deal with workplace conflicts in a positive way, give workers opportunities to participate in decisions that affect their jobs, avoid unrealistic deadlines, clarify your expectations and to offer rewards and incentives.

Relate 

This article relates to me personally because being stressed at work is a common feelings plenty of people have when they think about their job. Looking for solutions through reading an article and other ways to contain these feelings of stress was something I did not think of so after reading this article allowed me to learn ways to identify stress and ways to help yourself. 

Article: Stress At Work by Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., Melinda Smith, M.A., and Lawrence Robinson

Melinda Smith, M. A. (2023, November 8). Stress at work. HelpGuide.org. https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-in-the-workplace.htm


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