Comments on: Stress Test: Employees’ #1 health concern? You guessed it. STRESS (and watch out for Chicago). http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/2008/09/stress-test-employees-1-health-concern-you-guessed-it-stress-and-watch-out-for-chicago/ Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Craig Maltby, Editor http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/2008/09/stress-test-employees-1-health-concern-you-guessed-it-stress-and-watch-out-for-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Craig Maltby, Editor Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:13 +0000 http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/?p=300#comment-23 Right on, Alison. Tapping employees' full potential for creativity, idea generation and innovative solutions would, I think, be a great leap in stress reduction. I know that many surveys on employee satisfaction all exhibit findings that show a big cause of employee stress and job dissatisfaction stems from employees not feeling confident that their day to day work is contributing to the department or corporate mission, or being confused about what the mission or objective is (sorry companies, but "maximizing shareholder value" is not a mission, that's a given. Who can get out of bed in the morning with that as their motivational mantra?). Gosh, I didn't mean for this to turn into an employee development or management retention sermon. Anyway, thanks Alison, for the comment. Right on, Alison. Tapping employees’ full potential for creativity, idea generation and innovative solutions would, I think, be a great leap in stress reduction. I know that many surveys on employee satisfaction all exhibit findings that show a big cause of employee stress and job dissatisfaction stems from employees not feeling confident that their day to day work is contributing to the department or corporate mission, or being confused about what the mission or objective is (sorry companies, but “maximizing shareholder value” is not a mission, that’s a given. Who can get out of bed in the morning with that as their motivational mantra?).

Gosh, I didn’t mean for this to turn into an employee development or management retention sermon.

Anyway, thanks Alison, for the comment.

]]> By: Alison http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/2008/09/stress-test-employees-1-health-concern-you-guessed-it-stress-and-watch-out-for-chicago/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Alison Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:46:04 +0000 http://www.balancedimmunehealth.com/?p=300#comment-15 Wow... I live in Chicago and definitely wouldn't say this is the most stressful city. However, I was at the Cubs 1st playoff game and THAT was stressful. I do think that companies need to help increase work-life balance to help lower employee stress levels... Let employees work from home or a coffee shop sometime - getting them out of the office to work on a project may decrease stress and even improve out-of-the-box thinking! Wow… I live in Chicago and definitely wouldn’t say this is the most stressful city. However, I was at the Cubs 1st playoff game and THAT was stressful. I do think that companies need to help increase work-life balance to help lower employee stress levels… Let employees work from home or a coffee shop sometime – getting them out of the office to work on a project may decrease stress and even improve out-of-the-box thinking!

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