Prevent stress and fatigue due to work pressure

Clarence · March 5th, 2009, 06:32 AM

Due to the extreme work pressure and hectic working schedules the employees of my company frequently suffer from stress and fatigue and because of which the output of my company gets trembled. I want to exterminate the stress concerning problems in my organization. Any help that you can give me with respect to stress management for my employees would be appreciated.

**mooshue** · March 5th, 2009, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Clarence

Due to the extreme work pressure and hectic working schedules the employees of my company frequently suffer from stress and fatigue and because of which the output of my company gets trembled. I want to exterminate the stress concerning problems in my organization. Any help that you can give me with respect to stress management for my employees would be appreciated.

I have always liked the wellness program approach. You give employee's extra time during lunch to work out on the clock. This gives them not only a free break from the office and torture of the day to day operations, but gives them an opportunity to exert their frustrations in the form of exercise.
Additional benefits could include reduced insurace premiums that you have to pay out for your employee's if they agree to the program, take regular exams, bloodwork, piss tests, etc... to prove following the program.

**varbo** · March 5th, 2009, 11:58 AM

There aren't many details here but there are some things that you can offer your employees but its up to them to take advantage. The whole lead a horse to water deal.

1. Heathly Snacks - Sugar and fats mess you up. And for healthy snacks I don't mean those 100 calorie packs of cookies. A great quote I once read said, "100 calories of crap is still crap."

2. Have the company partner with a gym and give the employees discounts or pay for part of the membership fees. I wouldn't suggest they be free but cheap makes them more likely to be used.

3. If you have room and the insurance, set up a small workout area with a few machines and a shower. might get people there on the coffee break instead of eating doughnuts.

4. Offer classes in meditation or yoga. should be beneficial.

Those are things that I can thing of on the fitness side of things. There are a lot of things that can be done with how employees are treated and adequate staffing but that isn't the scope of this site.

Corwin01 · March 6th, 2009, 01:29 AM

It is quite common to go through stress with the extreme work pressure along with the long working hours, combined with poor diet choices and lack of physical activity. The lack of performance both mentally and physically defiantly hurt the company’s bottom-line which equals that the company suffers. There is a company, CEO Wellness Wellness at Work and Home ceowellness.com, that offers audit assessments and are available on the web. This doctor-directed company provides their services to find areas of weakness within your company, helping place both the employees and management in a win-win situation, thus helping them become more efficient in their work. CEO Wellness is founded by Dr. George Kosmides who overseas all the wellness audit information before providing any service to make sure that the program is site-specific. Regardless of the problems, CEO Wellness can help implement plans that work based on company need… This can be stress management sessions, lunch & learns blood sugar courses, weight loss information and coaching that work… the employees are enrolled so as to maintain their proficiency and health in the future also. I will advise you to take their assistance so that your organization also gets benefited by their services.

**A1food4U** · March 6th, 2009, 11:43 AM

WOW, a first time post with a problem, followed by a first time post with a purchase-able solution. Now , where have I sen this before...HMMMMMM

FitnessStrengthTraining · April 26th, 2009, 10:19 AM

Great suggestions, especially the quiet time/space for meditation and relaxation.

**theatrain** · April 26th, 2009, 02:49 PM

well i think its safe to say his post(s) didnt exactly send a flood of customers from EF out to buy a company wellness plan considering the majority of us here dont own our own companies or have this problem/need this solution.

the only thing they did was waste their time and the EFers time who posted useful info.

wrong forum, at least could have tried to sell some kind of fat loss supplement, muscle building forumla, etc. . . might have tricked a few people but im pretty sure the rest of us are alright without buying our company a wellness plan

PurfectTom · July 14th, 2009, 06:46 AM

Whilst above comments re helping staff to lead a healthy (re exercise) lifestyle are well made, and indeed should be more widely adopted, sadly the important part of the question was in its opening "Due to the extreme work pressure and hectic working schedules the employees of my company frequently suffer from stress and fatigue". If work time is 9-5 with just half hour for lunch and then overtime required to complete the workload, then no staff are going to be doing any exercise however well equipped a gym might be provided. "Stress" per se is not bad, for if there were no pressures to complete a body of work in a given time and to a given standard, then there would be no work-quality or job satisfaction to be obtained. The important requirement is that people be in control of the stress and so use it in a positive way to achieve fulfilment, rather than what would be abnormal or harmful imposed stress that someone feels unempowered to manage and so become distressed by. So work can have, and probably is better for having, at least some degree of "pressure and hectic working schedules" but "extreme" sounds like management needs to start doing their job correctly - partly because the staff are always the most important resource of a company and if such decent humanitarian concerns fail to motivate, then the "output... gets trembled" is the bottom line. Workforce numbers, workload subdivision, smooth pipelining of tasks (don't have everyone doing a bit of everything in some terrible jumble) and task ownership (a clearly defined task by which employees can feel a task completed and so move onto the next task) all need to be introduced. But unless changes made, then the company neither sounds a nice place to be working and is actively being bad for staff health; should there be (a big proviso) alternative work available elsewhere then staff might be best advised leaving the sweatshop ?