Experts say modern pressures are making jobs more frustrating for a lot of people.
Jennings' experience is not unique. After a while, I realized there was little I could do. Nearly a third of 1,305 workers who responded to a telephone survey about desk rage admitted to yelling at someone in the office, and 65 percent said workplace stress is at least occasionally a problem for them. Work stress had driven 23 percent of the respondents to tears, and 34 percent blamed their jobs for a loss of sleep. While workplace stress is nothing new, many experts and workers said several economic and social trends have intensified it or at least heightened sensitivity to it.