Stress in the workplace can have physical or psychosocial causes.
Physical stressors may include deficiencies in office or workplace layout, unhealthy working postures, lack of daylight, and excessive noise levels. These factors are the most straightforward to tackle.
Then there are the psychosocial factors, such as too high or even too low job demands, low levels of control, unfavourable working hours, job insecurity, and unwanted behaviour such as bullying, aggression and violence, sexual intimidation and discrimination.
All of these workplace stressors have an adverse effect both on the wellbeing of employees as well as on performance and productivity levels, product or service quality and eventually company image.