Job Stress Statistics

Job Stress Statistics

1. 40% of workers reported their job was very or extremely stressful.

2. 25% view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives.

3. Three fourths of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago.

4. 29% of workers felt quite a bit or extremely stressed at work.

5. 26 percent of workers said they were "often or very often burned out or stressed by their work."

6. Job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems.

7. 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.

8. 14% of respondents had felt like striking a coworker in the past year, but didn't.

9. 25% have felt like screaming or shouting because of job stress, 10% are concerned about an individual at work they fear could become violent.

10. 9% are aware of an assault or violent act in their workplace and 18% had experienced some sort of threat or verbal intimidation in the past year.

11. 65% of workers said that workplace stress had caused difficulties and more than 10 percent described these as having major effects.

12. 10% said they work in an atmosphere where physical violence has occurred because of job stress and in this group, 42% report that yelling and other verbal abuse is common.

13. 29% had yelled at co-workers because of workplace stress, 14% said they work where machinery or equipment has been damaged because of workplace rage and 2% admitted that they had actually personally struck someone.

14. 19% or almost one in five respondents had quit a previous position because of job stress and nearly one in four have been driven to tears because of workplace stress.

15. 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...