Often we hear the news that a well-earned person has committed suicide. Solan died of stress. From Japan to America, from China to India, such news has become very common.
In 2016, an Uber software engineer committed suicide in the US. His salary was in lakhs. His family alleged that the software engineer had committed suicide due to tensions at Uber's office.
major cause of stress
A 21-year-old young man working in the London office of financial company Merrill Lynch suddenly collapsed and passed away. This intern was working continuously for 72 hours. When ArcelorMittal Steel Company announced the closure of one of its steel factories in Britain, a 56-year-old worker died of a heart attack.
His family said that it was the shock of the closure of the factory that took his life.
According to Europe's Agency for Safety and Health at Work, in European countries about half of the loss of 550 million days of work is due to stress.
Bad office environment is deadly too!
In 2015, quoting the results of about three hundred research, it was said that the bad working environment in the office is very harmful for our health. It can also be fatal and we may have to go to the doctor because of it.
The stress of the office is just like the loss we suffer by standing next to a cigarette smoker.
Reasons for bad office environment
There can be many reasons for the bad working environment in the office. Such as long working hours, lack of balance between home and office responsibilities, fear of losing the job, never being called to work and having no control over the job. In America, not having health insurance in the job is also a reason for stress.
Today offices are making people sick and even taking their lives. That is why it is important that we should be aware of this.
The cost of treatment is increasing all over the world. That's why office stress is becoming a big health challenge.
What do the figures say?
According to the famous Mayo Clinic in London, today your supervisor has become more important in the job than your family doctor.
The World Economic Organization estimates that three quarters of the worldwide health and medical expenditure goes to the treatment of serious diseases. Diseases not caused by untouchability and infection account for 63 percent of the total deaths today.
Serious diseases are happening due to stress and unhealthy behaviour. Such as smoking, taking drugs, drinking alcohol and overeating under stress. All the surveys show that today office has become a major cause of stress in our life. For this reason, it is becoming the reason for the crisis of health care today.
The American Institute of Stress claims that due to office stress, the American economy suffers a loss of about $ 300 billion every year.
According to an article published in a magazine, every year the death toll increases by 1 lakh twenty thousand due to poor management policies. This puts a burden of up to 190 billion dollars on the cost of treatment.
Stress is a disease worse than Alzheimer's
Today the reason for office stress has reached 20 percent of the total deaths. That is, it has become a disease worse than kidney disease and Alzheimer's.
The UK's Health and Safety Executive report says that in 2016-17, office stress in the UK caused a loss of 125 million days of work.
Often the reasons for stress in the office are not beneficial for the company. Yet companies work on such policies, which increases tension. For example, the productivity of employees decreases due to longer working hours.
That is, they spend more time in the office. But this does not benefit the company. It also has a bad effect on the economy of the country.
Which employees perform better?
Similarly, retrenchment in the job does not improve the performance of any organization. Sometimes because of this, good employees leave the job. Then those who are fired from the company, they have to pay a hefty amount. This also has a bad effect on the financial health of the company.
Also, the departure of old employees also leaves good customers of that company, because often their personal relationship with the employees becomes good, on the basis of which business is done.
It has been proved by many research that if we give more rights to people in the job, give them the opportunity to move and work according to their own accord, then their performance improves. They do not need to hear and say anything from the management side again and again. They themselves are motivated to do good work.
In such a situation, it is not surprising that the stressed employees work more on the option of leaving the job. This movement of employees is very expensive. Sick and stressed employees do not have good productivity. Healthy workers do a better job than them.
people not sure about job
For the time being, all the signs are indicating that the tension in the job is increasing. Earlier, where layoffs used to take place only during the recession, now it has become common. Recently, a US company named 3G Capital merged the business of its two brands Heinz and Kraft, then 20% of the employees were fired.
Today is such a phase of the economy, when no one is sure about their job. They do not know when their income will be. will increase or decrease. Today, due to artificial intelligence, machines have taken away many tasks from the hands of humans.
The most fundamental problem is that in the past, where the CEO of a company held himself accountable to the employees, along with the shareholders, management and customers. But today, in a capitalist society, only the shareholders dominate the mind of the CEO. Due to this, they are not able to take care of the interests of those working under them.
In such an environment of tension, some companies are lighting the lamp of hope. Employees in Patagonia, Collective Health, SAS Institute, Google, John Lewis Partnership are the owners of the company.
In these companies, people get time to go on leave with salary. So that they can refresh themselves by spending time with family and friends or as per their wish.
But in some companies work with pleasure
Many times, accommodation is also arranged by the company itself, so that the employees can work and spend time with family. People are given freedom to work. They are not forced on everything like children.
Such companies understand their accountability and responsibility towards the employees. For example, there is a Chief Health Officer in the SAS Institute, whose job is to maintain the good health of the employees.
Similarly, the founder of the Patagonia company has written a book saying that he wants to see his employees working with fun. Employees of this company get weekly off for three days every other week. The health insurance company provides all the employees.
Now people should also try for jobs in such companies, where the atmosphere is friendly for the employees. Don't be stressed. Their health and mental health should be taken care of.
Governments should also put pressure on companies to make their environment better. This will only improve the economic health of the government. The burden of disease on the country's economy will be reduced.
source- bbc news.
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