Workplace Stress Analysis

Many ways to define the fundamental word of work exist today. Work carried out by the businesses of America a multitude of workers coordinate to complete a common assignment. In this model workers are treated as resources and not people or even employees. Often leading to high amounts of stress on the employees of that company as well as the employees’ families as it enables companies to view them as numbers and not people making a living. This treatment aids in supporting a long standing tradition of worker exploitation that has existed in the United States originating even before the advent of factories. Though large companies view this treatment of workers as ethical the current treatment of most workers in the United States is unethical …show more content…
In the article “Workplace Stress, Stress Effects, and Coping Mechanisms in the Construction Industry” Paul Bowen, professor at the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town, as well as three other coauthors display through data analysis that “workplace stress leads to psychological, physiological, and sociological strain effects” in turn requiring workers to find ways to cope with high amounts of stress (Bowen). The impact of workplace stress permeates through the lives of employees as high stress can lead to a plethora of issues such as lack of sleep, nervous breaks, and depression. Current deadline centric practices in American business this stress is more often than not continuing to mount over employees. Stress caused from the stress inducing environments of the modern work world clearly can cause a bevy of other issues in the lives of the …show more content…
In some business fields the treatment of employees varies vastly from the majority of jobs in other fields one key example of this is the technology industry. Google as one of the largest tech companies to emerge from the so called “silicon valley” in California takes a unique view on the treatment of their employees. In a memo entitled “The Google Workout” written by Eric Schmidt, the ceo of Google incorporated, lists “we provide first-class dining facilities, gyms, laundry rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry cleaning, commuting buses. Programmers don't want to do laundry” serving as a small list of the amenities Google supplies their “Knowledge workers” (Schmidt). The forward thinking practices of Google seem to point out a different way of maximizing efficiency in employees as opposed to the by the numbers nine to five approach that is primarily used today. Google’s technique has propelled them to the top of many articles hailing them as the future of workplace environments bringing the tech company some effective publicity.
Conditions in the American workplace are ever changing. Current conditions are unethical however as a better way of handling the issues brought to the eyes in many business exist today. Further application through