You Are Not Alone

The experience of acute occupational stress is widespread.

• Since the late 1970s, the average work year has increased by almost 700 hours ⁽¹⁾.
• Seventy-five percent of workers believe employees have more job stress than a generation ago ⁽²⁾.
• 26% of workers report they are often burned out by their work ⁽³⁾.
• For 25% to 30% of the workforce, high levels of emotional exhaustion, the first step in the process of job burnout, are the norm ⁽⁴⁾.
• Seventy-five percent of workers believe employees have more job stress than a generation ago ⁽⁵⁾.
• Over 75% of working Americans “describe their jobs as stressful and believe that the pressure is steadily increasing” ⁽⁶⁾.
• Forty percent of workers report that their job is extremely stressful ⁽⁷⁾.
• 20% of employees rate their job as the biggest stress in their lives ⁽⁸⁾.

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