Job stress is a serious threat to employees health and productivity.
The report highlights a series of surveys showing that about one-third of U.S. workers find their jobs to be extremely stressful. Veteran tax assessor Sheldon Skip Brown believes that the severe migraine headaches he has suffered for years stem from long, hard hours during peak periods at the Department of Tax and Revenue Financing in the nation s capital. The sheer volume of citizens paying their taxes is especially hectic right before the yearly April 15th cutoff, he says. I ve had headaches so bad, I ve had to take time off from work to rest. Brown says he is also worried about job security since 168 workers were arbitrarily laid off two years ago by Anthony Williams, then chief financial officer of the District of Columbia control board and now mayor.