Study: Stress Sources Differ For Managers And Employees - And Why It Matters

A study earlier this year from Towers Watson examined the sources of stress at work and found that managers and employees view the problem very differently.  The study is called Workforce Stress: The Employer/Employee Disconnect, and involved approximately 5,000 workers at companies with over 1,000 employees.   If there’s a substantive “disconnect” and lack of understanding between the two groups, a fair question is: Can management effectively address the problem of workplace stress if it doesn’t fully understand what the problem is?