While 39 per cent of Canadians say they 'often' or 'always' experience their own work as stressful, 72 per cent think most other Canadian workers experience a high level of stress at work.
Paul Glavin is an associate professor of sociology at McMaster University.
Given the ongoing narrative about how stressed everyone is these days and the prevalence of burnout, we hypothesized that most people would report their work as “often” or “always” stressful. But we were wrong. What about Canada? The perception glitch mirrors our discoveries in the U.S.: While 39 per cent of Canadians say they “often” or “always” experience their own work as stressful, 72 per cent think most other Canadian workers experience a high level of stress at work.In our Canadian survey, there’s another novel twist. We added a more local reference point by also asking what people’s perceptions of the level of stress experienced by most of their own coworkers.
Perhaps a bigger and more philosophical question is: Shouldn’t we expect to find work stressful at least some of the time? We all experience some pressures or demands on the job that are stressful. Most of us accept that reality. In fact, it can make a job more interesting and stimulating. But when pressure is chronic, it can threaten health.
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