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Managing Workplace Stress Workplace stress is one of the leading factors affecting employee mental wellbeing. While mild stress may motivate us, excessive and prolonged stress can lead to burnout - characterized by energy depletion, increased mental distance from work, and ineffectiveness.
Identifying Signs and Symptoms of Workplace Stress
Recognising the various signs and indications of stress and burnout in the work space, is crucial for implementing effective coping strategies. Stress may pose emotional challenges and alter our behaviours and thinking patterns, thereby leading towards a decline in productivity and quality of work.
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Common symptoms may include:
Increased irritability and mood swings which could possibly lead to conflicts with co-workers. Feeling withdrawn and disconnected from friends, family and coworkers. Feeling a sense of being overwhelmed and unable to cope with responsibilities at work, leading towards mental exhaustion. Losing motivation and enthusiasm for work related activities. Declining self-confidence and doubting one's abilities at work. Increased emotional sensitivity which may make an individual prone to feeling overly discouraged by work feedback. Emotional Symptoms See Example for Analysis >>
Increased irritability and mood swings which could possibly lead to conflicts with co-workers. Feeling withdrawn and disconnected from friends, family and coworkers. Feeling a sense of being overwhelmed and unable to cope with responsibilities at work, leading towards mental exhaustion. Losing motivation and enthusiasm for work related activities. Declining self-confidence and doubting one's abilities at work. Increased emotional sensitivity which may make an individual prone to feeling overly discouraged by work feedback. Negative thinking which may include excessive self-criticism and a tendency to focus on failures rather than successes. Difficulty in concentrating and staying focused on tasks. Excessive worrying and overthinking about workplace objectives, interactions and outcomes. Catastrophizing and dwelling on worst case scenarios related to work. Difficulty in making decisions and contending with uncertainty. Thought Related Symptoms See Example for Analysis >>
Negative thinking which may include excessive self-criticism and a tendency to focus on failures rather than successes. Difficulty in concentrating and staying focused on tasks. Excessive worrying and overthinking about workplace objectives, interactions and outcomes. Catastrophizing and dwelling on worst case scenarios related to work. Difficulty in making decisions and contending with uncertainty. Avoiding important tasks, missing deadlines and neglecting responsibilities at work. Increased absenteeism, calling in sick more frequently and arriving late to work. Overworking and consistently staying late at the workplace as a means of avoiding work related stress. Observable decline in work performance. Behavioral Symptoms See Example for Analysis >>
Avoiding important tasks, missing deadlines and neglecting responsibilities at work. Increased absenteeism, calling in sick more frequently and arriving late to work. Overworking and consistently staying late at the workplace as a means of avoiding work related stress. Observable decline in work performance. 
Emotional Symptoms
Thought Related Symptoms
Behavioral Symptoms