Job stress - Brief Article

USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), August, 2001

Job stress, whether in the corporate world or on an assembly line, can damage employee performance, warns John Herman, associate professor of psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. "Moderate stress in many cases increases productivity and can be pleasant for some people.

But higher levels of stress can interfere with your ability to perform your job, is rarely pleasurable, and can lead to emotional and physical problems." Some of these may be decreased job satisfaction, abrasiveness, making constant excuses, unpredictable behavior, moodiness, decreased communication, tardiness, or an increase in sick time.