The website asked more than 1,000 people about workplace stress, repeating research it also conducted last year. According to the respondents, part-time employees face significantly less stress, as some 27% of four-hour workers said that their job is not stressful at all; a mere 9% of full-time workers responded with the same answer.
Most of those surveyed say that workplace conflicts cause the biggest tensions. Some 20% of those who work eight hours a day named their superiors as the main source of stress. The ratio was also 20% among six-hour employees. Four hour workers are most stressed by clients and partners (24%) and expectations (25%). Freelancers and entrepreneurs considered clients and partners (32%) as the most significant stress factor, followed by the state of the industry they are working in (29%).
While 33% of freelancers and entrepreneurs consider stressful situations rather motivating, the same amount of regular employees consider it a blocking factor. Some three out of ten have already left a job due to stress being too much to handle. The ratio can be considered very high, according to the research, and the phenomenon is most prevalent in those between 40-49 years of age.
Some 39% of respondents choose to “talk it out” when dealing with stress, with 28% preferring to have some coffee and 20% deciding to have a smoke as their method. While the most healthy alternative is to do sports, only about 21% practice this as a way of taking care of the issue.
About 67% of employees sleep between six and seven hours a day, with 20% sleeping less, which includes a high number of manual laborers.
More than half (55%) of the respondents have no breaks at all at the workplace, while 13% do have some, but fail to regularly use it. Approximately 13% had some kind of an illness related to workplace stress, with such illnesses the most prevalent among those who had to change jobs.
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