Roughly 83 percent of American workers feel stressed out by their jobs, up from 73 percent a year ago, according to a new study by Harris Interactive for Everest College. Low pay tops the list of reasons for the third consecutive year. The study was conducted by phone among 1,000 adults between Feb. 21 and March 3.
Another top stressor is unreasonable workload, with 14 percent saying they had too much to do, up from 9 percent last year. Third place was annoying coworkers and commuting, which tied at 11 percent. This was followed by working in a job that was not the person's chosen career (8 percent), poor work-life balance (7 percent), lack of opportunity for advancement (6 percent) and fear of being fired (4 percent).
The survey shows gender differences in the responses: 18 percent of women cited low pay as the most stressful aspect of their job compared with 10 percent of men, while men's No. 1 stressor was unreasonable workloads (14 percent), followed by annoying coworkers (12 percent).
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