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

In recent times, some believe that one of the success keys of a company to grow business faster is to demand their workers to work more.

However

,

this

will result in a higher stress level for the majority of

employees

. In

this

essay, I will explain two essential reasons for

such

an issue, which are overrated employer expectations

as well as

the inability of the staff to manage their time effectively,

together with

the solution.

To begin

, many companies set various high targets in order to be better off than their competitor within an industry.

Such

goals require tight deadlines with abundant quantity results, which will not only result in pressuring subordinates to finish their task as soon as possible but

also

produce low-quality outputs.

For instance

, a manufacturer who pushes their labour to produce thousands of plates overnight will result in products with relatively a lot of defects. To tackle

this

problem, the management level should evaluate their business targets by considering whether the targets are realistic or too optimistic.

Secondly

, the background of

employees

' stress is

also

caused by the workers' habits themselves, especially in their ability to manage time efficiently and effectively. People usually get distracted by other administrative stuff that must be done within similar deadlines, of which tasks are not related to their job description like filling in insurance reimbursement forms

for example

.

Besides

, the distraction can appear from things outside the office during their working hours

such

as family issues and simply trivia notifications from their personal phone. Two solutions that can be done by the employers are imposing job regulations to discipline

employees

focusing on their jobs,

as well as

delegating any tasks that are not related to respective subordinates to other vacant people. In conclusion, the workers will feel more stress if the firms urge them to do their occupations harder.

This

mental health issue occurs

due to

companies' unrealistic objectives and individuals' incapability to manage their time allocation promptly during office hours, which can be done by revising the employers' procedures in setting realistic goals and asserting human capital rules. If these cannot be solved,

then

both employers and

employees

will be worse off.