Comprehensive Report: Analyzing Work Stress Factors and Solutions

This document presents a video transcript that addresses the pervasive issue of work stress in contemporary organizations, particularly affecting individuals aged 18 to 47, encompassing Millennials and Gen X. The transcript highlights that 46% of work stress stems from workload and explores the detrimental effects on both employees and organizations, including decreased productivity, mental and physical health problems like headaches, depression, and anxiety. The discussion transitions to innovative solutions such as fostering comfortable, friendly work environments that promote trust and open communication, as well as implementing strategies to track stressors through regular surveys and offering flexible work arrangements, recreational facilities, and counseling sessions. The transcript concludes by emphasizing the importance of employee-centered policies to reduce attrition and create a mutually beneficial environment by overcoming physical, emotional, mental, and psychological barriers to mitigate work stress.

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5 seconds: Video introduction (music plays)
30 seconds: Video shows people working in different workplaces (Narration starts few seconds
later): “We identified a major issue within the organizations that function in today’s corporate
world. The issue has been persistent for quite some time now. Work Stress. Work Stress has
been a persistent issue in organizational environments. In fact the major problem has been
excessive work stress reported in large number of incidences. People aged between 18 to 47
years were found to be the most stressed. This age group include both the Millennials and Gen
X. 46% of all work stress is caused by workload (Weigl et al. 2015). We will focus on finding
solutions to this problem.”
50 seconds: Video shows the group members seated in a room in sofas
Speaker 1 Group leader starts: “The problem of work stress is increasing at a faster pace across
the globe with increasing levels of work pressure on the work force of organizations. How can
organizations actually be affected if the issue continues?”
Speaker 2: “Well the problem is big for both the employees and the organization. It can be said
that the employees that are exposed to the high levels of stress due to factors like workload,
people issues, maintaining work life balance and lack of security for jobs. People are working
more for their organizations and after a time they are becoming unproductive and leaving their
organizations. Companies should take note of this if they want to flourish in the long term”.
Speaker 3: “Quite frankly speaking the real issues that are being face by employees are severe
mental and physical stress. This is harming their mental and physiological health. People are
facing issues such as headaches, indigestion, severe back pain, sleeplessness and dermatological

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issues (Li et al. 2015). Not to mention the other mental effects such as depression, anxiety,
pessimism and at the end of the day a very unhappy employee.”
90 seconds: Video starts with clippings of people at workplaces getting stressed. Returns to room
with all the group members present (music plays).
Speaker 1, the group leader starts: “We can think of more innovative solutions to this problems
as the existing solutions have either become very old or are not effective enough in the current
environments. I will ask my fellow group members to evaluate some effective and new
solutions.”
Speaker 4: “Innovative solutions can be used to make happier employees. One solution that I can
provide is a very comfortable work environments. Friendly work environments help to reduce
stress factors. People get a high sense of trust that naturally causes a shortage of stress levels.
People need to interact more, people need to communicate more and people need to have a calm
and collected approach to communicate their concerns to the leadership (Kinnunen et al. 2016).
The leadership should help in making this happen along with the employees. Without
cooperation from the highest to the lowest levels in a given workplace this is very difficult.”
Speaker 5: “A second solution that can be given to provide effective solutions towards work
stress related problems is tracking the stressors and take necessary actions. This is a solution with
a wide scope. The organizational heads can take out monthly or quarterly surveys listing some of
the major concerns that can affect the employee satisfaction. Once they have the results they can
implement plans to tackle these identified factors. In this case some of the solutions can involve
greater amount of work flexibility, better allocation of work, reduced work timings, recreational
facilities, work from home and employee counseling sessions.”

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60 seconds: Participants discuss how trust can be built
Speaker 1, the group leader: “Having discussed the solutions, now it’s time to find out how they
will work.”
Speaker 2: “The first factor is a friendly work environment. A friendly environment would help
to reduce stress as in many cases, what the employees actually want is a comfortable place where
they can share their life’s problems. That’s half the work done. A very sensible leadership knows
how to motivate its employees in the right ways. Paying more attention to them would also make
sure that they are more loyal to the organization and remain so.”
Speaker 3: “The second solution provided is effective. Organizations would get to know what is
stressing out their employees. Different work environments have different kinds of problems.
This will help to identify the exact problems. A special team can then then work towards finding
out what is causing the issues among the employees and implement necessary solutions. Flexible
work timings, recreation and more number of leaves are very important stress busters. They can
be utilized accordingly.”
65 seconds: The speaker says
Speaker 1, group leader: “In conclusion it can be said that work stress is a big problem. A large
chunk of the attrition occurring across organizations are being caused by this (van Mol et al.
2018). Organizations are employing more and more employee centered policies to improve the
working conditions. It is important to overcome physical, emotional, mental and psychological
barriers to reduce work stress and create a mutually developmental environment (Kinnunen et al.
2016).”

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