A List of Stress Statistics

Note: These stress statistics are dated,
so just imagine how much the figures have increased by now!
  • Health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress (Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine)

  • Workers who must take time off from work because of stress anxiety or related disorder will be off the job for about 20 days (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

  • 75% of employees believe the worker has more on-the-job stress than a generation ago (Princeton Survey Research Associates)

  • 40% of workers report their job is “very or extremely stressful” (Northwestern National Life)

  • 25% of employees view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives (Northwestern National Life)

  • 26% of workers report they are “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work” (Families and Work Institute)

  • 29% of workers report they feel “quite a bit or extremely stressed at work” ( Yale University)

  • 80% of workers feel stress on the job; nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress.--2000 annual “Attitudes In The American Workplace V” Gallup Poll sponsored by the Marlin Company

  • The total health and productivity cost of worker stress to American business is estimated at $50 to $150 billion annually.--Sauter, S.L.; Murphy, L.R.; and Hurrell, Jr., J.J. (1990) Prevention of work-related psychological disorders. American Psychologist. 45(10):1146-1153

  • 54% of employees felt overwhelmed by how much work they had to complete at some time in the past month. Results of a Family and Work Institute study, in the Boston Globe 6/19/05

    Stress Statistics from a Harris Interactive poll of working adults nationwide,
    May-June 2004 (reported in the Boston Globe 6/11/04):

    • There are more errors at work because of stress according to 42% of workers.
    • Stress causes more arguments among coworkers, say 34% of workers.
    • 28% of workers say people are calling in sick because of stress.
    • Attendance problems are related to stress, according to 26% of workers.
    • 63% of workers say their personal lives have been affected by job-related stress.
    • 60% of workers say their jobs have negatively affected their physical and emotional health.

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