5 Ways To Help Workers Overcome Difficulties

Average workplace problems often cause increasingly serious consequences for employees and business owners when allowed to continue unresolved over a prolonged period. Greater costs in lost productivity and quality, runaway turnover rates, brand damage, etc. are some essential risks of leaving employees’ issues unattended. Fortunately, there are effective ways pavement sweeping business managers can gain control over serious situations that are causing widespread high stress.

Naturally, employees experience personal and jobrelated issues that can impact performance. Insisting that people simply keep their problems to themselves is not realistic. Their personal problems blend with workplace difficulties and vice versa. Stress levels escalate, job focus is compromised, priorities become confused, and working relationships are impacted. It’s a chain reaction.

Temporary stress (acute stress) normally does not cause serious effects on health or job performance. But, persistent stress (chronic stress) due to coping long-term with problematic circumstances can result in adverse mental and physical health conditions, poor work performance, and serious impacts on the business.

Consider what happens to people who are struggling to cope with functioning under persistent high-stress conditions at work. Job-related stress can lead to serious mental and physical health effects that can negatively impact the individual’s work and personal life and relationships.

These conditions often lead to declining work performance, loss of teamwork, diminished quality, soaring turnover costs, and other extreme effects. Those can ultimately severely impact individuals and their families and the business.

Unsurprisingly, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data indicates that a percentage of U.S. employees say continued on page 28