August 8, 2007
Stress relief could be stressing coworkers
By Matthew L. Brown
Be quiet, stay in your cube, don't click your pen, chew gum, yell, type loudly, go mute, snort or count down the hours to deadline.
According to Minneapolis, Minn.-based Ceridian LifeWorks, those are some of the most annoying habits of stressed-out office workers, and while those habits may help some workers calm their nerves, they do nothing but stress out those around them, a Ceridian survey found.
The survey found the most annoying stress-relief habits to be conversational tangents, pen clicking, leaving work to go work out, excessive gum snapping, extreme giddiness, counting down the hours until deadline, throwing tantrums, going mute, keyboard abuse and sniffling and snorting.
Ceridian said there are much more practical ways to deal with office stress, including ignoring e-mail and telephone calls in order to focus on work, setting realistic timelines, communicating concerns with co-workers, balancing life and work, taking time out for lunch, paying attention to posture and stretching. Using a stress ball was strangely absent.
According to Minneapolis, Minn.-based Ceridian LifeWorks, those are some of the most annoying habits of stressed-out office workers, and while those habits may help some workers calm their nerves, they do nothing but stress out those around them, a Ceridian survey found.
The survey found the most annoying stress-relief habits to be conversational tangents, pen clicking, leaving work to go work out, excessive gum snapping, extreme giddiness, counting down the hours until deadline, throwing tantrums, going mute, keyboard abuse and sniffling and snorting.
Ceridian said there are much more practical ways to deal with office stress, including ignoring e-mail and telephone calls in order to focus on work, setting realistic timelines, communicating concerns with co-workers, balancing life and work, taking time out for lunch, paying attention to posture and stretching. Using a stress ball was strangely absent.
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