According to the American Institute for Stress, the epidemic of stress carries a price tag for U.S. industry estimated at over $300 billion annually as a result of:

• Accidents

• Absenteeism

• Employee turnover 

• Diminished productivity 

• Direct medical, legal, and insurance costs

• Workers’ compensation awards

 

Recent studies of attitudes in the workplace reveal that 80% of workers feel stress on the job - nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress and 42% say their coworkers need such help.

 

• 62% routinely find that they end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% reported stressed-out eyes, 38% complained of hurting hands and 34% reported difficulty in sleeping because they were too stressed-out
   

• 19% (almost 1 in 5) had quit a previous position because of job stress and nearly one in four have been driven to tears because of workplace stress
   

• 14% have felt like striking a coworker in the past year; 25% have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress 
   

• 12% have called in sick because of job stress