What is Stress and how does it affect our work life?
STRESS: As of now, the word stress has certainly become one of the most popularly used & to an extent a rather appropriate addition in everyday’s lingo. Stress is often misinterpreted or misunderstood by many. Stress is only a common reaction of our body & is also an essential part of our existence. Stress makes us immune to pain, heightens memory response, improves our reflexes, but commonly with the spark of stress, there’s a simultaneous relaxation response within the body pretty much like a typical bollywood movie climax where the hero wants to save his woman & is able to become immune even to a bullet, is as watchful as a hawk & fights like a champ, saving his woman & then moves towards a happily ever after.
Unfortunately, the state of happiness after a bout of stress is now becoming rather difficult to achieve, with the result, body & life is at a “fight” mostly. A perpetual state of stress defeats body’s normal response of relaxation thereby rendering the body fatigued, tired & susceptible to varied disorders/ infections.
- A survey amongst 30 companies revealed that atleast 50 per cent of the employees had stress in some form or other.
- 20 %had depression and
- 30 % had problems like alcoholism, marital discord, etc
- STRESS is a leading contributor to a variety of health problems, including coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, bacterial and viral infections, and depression.
A few lifestyle disorders:
- HYPERTENSION has seen to affect 25-30% of urban population
- OBESITY : 65% of Indians are suffering from overweight obesity and 39% are suffering from abdominal Obesity.
- DIABETES 20 million diabetics in India, which is the highest ever reported number from anywhere in the world. The prevalence of diabetes varies between 6-8% in urban In 2007, the country with the largest numbers of people with diabetes is India (40.9 million)
- INSOMNIA It is estimated that as much as 30 % adult population suffers from insomnia
The worst part about stress is that it attacks one’s state of health from all directions -physically, emotionally, mentally & spiritually. Stress can exuberate & pronounce its presence in life in many forms without even one realizing that it is stress which is causing all this mess. So one needs to understand that a short lived state of happiness, perpetual heaviness in the body, some or the other problems in the body & quite obvious changes in one’s personality could be symptoms of stress & should be dealt with immediately before they accumulate within & cause some major lifestyle disorder.
The big question that how one person’s stress can affect an Organization?
- An unhealthy individual is a LIABILITY to the entire setup/ team.
- The lifestyle disorders have a very deep impact on the employee’s performance thus leading to LOW PRODUCTIVITY.
- For example, someone suffering from a sleep disorder like insomnia will also be highly irritable, usually angry/ frustrated & will carry a very short attention span to work, collectively reducing his performance
- A HAPPY EMPLOYEE is not just an ASSET for the organization, but also an inspiration for the rest of the team.
- Work absenteeism could be stress related due to professional or personal reasons or some health issue that the employee must be facing.
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