Top 10 causes of stress at work

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

We’ve all experienced those days at work where nothing seems to go right and by lunch time even the most trivial things that you’d usually brush off are beginning to cause you to cause you undue stress.

Well, it appears that you are not alone…  The following is a list of the top 10 causes of stress in the workplace many of which you will no doubt have experienced at one time or another:

1. Seeing others not pulling their weight
2. Managers changing their minds about what they want doing
3. Lack of support from managers
4. Pressure from managers
5. Feeling put-upon by managers
6. Interruptions by colleagues
7. Interruptions by managers
8. Bullying behaviour by managers
9. Lack of support from colleagues
10. Bullying behaviour by colleagues

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