Nowadays, many people have to work for longer hours, asd they feel more stressed out than before. What are the reasons? What can the employers do to make their lives easier?

With the increase in working hours at

office

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the office

, employees have been experiencing higher

stress

levels than ever before.

This

essay will

first

suggest that inadequate number of employees and unrealistic deadlines are the main causes for longer office hours, eventually leading to mental health issues, and

further

emphasis that by hiring adequate staff and proper delegation of responsibilities, employers can help address

this

issue. It is often observed that most workplaces are understaffed, which leads to improper division of responsibilities.

In other words

, management has a tendency to save cost by hiring an insufficient number of people, which eventually results in overburdening the existing staff with excess

work

.To elucidate, a recent survey conducted in Mumbai, Downtown area, by The Times showed that 80 percent of the offices were under-staffed by almost 30 percent.

In addition

to

this

, employees are

also

pressurized by their bosses to complete projects within unreasonable deadlines, which leads to

further

stress

and anxiety. As a consequence, office goers have to

work

overtime to meet the target date, leading to dissatisfaction, depression and other mental issues. To exemplify, a recent study conducted in 2017 by The national institute of neurology found that more than 70 percent of people diagnosed with some form of clinical depression, had mentioned over-

work

and other

work

related issues as their major cause of

stress

. Employers can play a crucial role in addressing

this

issue by regularly checking and ensuring, that hiring is done as per the

work

size, and any mismatch is addressed at the earliest.

In other words

, having adequate staff would promote equitable division of duties and assignments along with maintaining reasonable deadlines, leading to employees having elevated levels of satisfaction and higher productivity. To illustrate, one of my friends who regularly complained of

work

-related

stress

and was prescribed anti-depressants for the same, showed significant recovery once new hiring was initiated

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by

his company and his workload got reduced. To

conlude

decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

conclude

, people to

work

for extra hours in offices, eventually feeling high levels of pressure. The major cause for

this

scenario is less number of employees working and impractical timeline set by the bosses and

this

can be solved employers hiring sufficcient employees and proper delegaton of tasks