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Stress & burnout statistics

- One-third of Americans feel they are living with extreme stress.

- About half of Americans (48%) feel that their stress has increased over the past five years.

- Money and work are the leading causes of stress (mentioned by three quarters of Americans).

Source: American Psychological Association study, 2007.

Stress impacts lives in a dramatic way:

- About one half of Americans say that stress has a negative impact on both their personal and professional lives.

- About one-third (31%) of employed adults have difficulty managing work and family responsibilities.

- Over one third (35%) cite jobs interfering with their family or personal time as a significant source of stress.

- Stress causes more than half of Americans (54 percent) to fight with people close to them.
-- One in four people report that they have been alienated from a friend or family member because of stress.
-- 8% connect stress to divorce or separation.

Source: American Psychological Association study, 2007.

- Workplace stress costs more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work and stress-reduction (American Institute of Stress, NY).

- Workers who report that they are stressed incur health care costs that are 46 percent higher, or an average of $600 more per person, than other employees (Steven L. Sauter, chief of the Organizational Science and Human Factors Branch of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

- Workers in the United States already put in more than 1,800 hours on the job a year: 350 hours more than the Germans and slightly more than the Japanese (International Labor Office).

- More than 30 percent of workers say they are "always" or "often" under stress at work. A quarter of those surveyed in 2002 said there often were not enough co-workers to get the job done (National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago).

Source:
Sick of work, by John Schwartz. The New York Times, September 5, 2004

See also:

- Stress effects on health: statistics

- Back pain and psychosomatic problems

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