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 the office, employees have been experiencing higher stress levels than ever before.

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essay will

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suggest that inadequate number of employees as 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.

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, 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. 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 by his company and his workload got reduced. To 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