by Workplace stress derives from many sources. It can be a demanding boss, annoying co-workers, rebellious students, angry customers, hazardous conditions, long commutes and a never-ending workload. Your work performance is also affected by stressors such as family relationships, finances and a lack of sleep stemming from fears and anxieties about the future. How you handle the effects of stress depends on whether it is easier to change the situation or change your attitude towards it.
Poor Time Management
The best part of stress is that it can jump-start your adrenalin and energise you to perform your tasks more quickly in response to impending deadlines. An extra workload, lack of peer support and too many demands at once leads down to frustration and panic that there isn’t enough time to complete the work. According to the authors of “Performance Under Pressure: Managing Stress in the Workplace”, if these conditions routinely result in overtime or having to take work home, the stress of being unable to manage time efficiently can fuel employees’ resentment toward the company as well as negatively influence their commitment and loyalty.
Strained Relationships
Strained relationships are the one that includes negative symptoms such as nervousness, jealousy, lack of communication, unhappiness, and more. This kind of relationships are hazardous to our health which makes us sick, unhappy, sad and inactive.
Lack of Focus
Stress influences your skill to learn the stuff which you already know, to process new information you are learning and to apply both to analytical situations and physical tasks that require concentration. When you are not focused, tend to make more mistakes, your tasks gets delayed, even you sometimes don’t reach on time. Stress not only affects your body but your mind, too. For example, whenever there is a stress, people start eating habits just to satisfy their minds. They get fat, increase their cholesterol levels, and when they realise that they have become out of focus, they get more stressed.
One more example can be give on job. There is lot of politics in our country in our workplace and even in our family, too. This is due to the competition. The more competition, the more politics. People try to make someone down if he/she is more qualified or more active towards your work, then we have vampires who will find your weaknesses and make you down so that you are unable to focus on your work and later on, you are out from your job.
Effect on Health
In addition to headaches, sleep disorders, vision problems, weight loss/gain and blood pressure, stress affects cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal systems, says Richard Weinstein, author of “The Stress Effect”. If you’re not feeling well, you’re not going to do your best work. Further, the amount of sick leave taken to rest and recuperate from stress related illnesses often means that the work only accumulates during your absence and, thus generates even more stress about how to catch up once you return.
