Stress in the Workplace Stress costs businesses over 300 billion dollars per year. It is estimated that one million workers are absent every day due to stress disorders. Stress is responsible for about 275,000,000 workdays lost annually due to absenteeism. Stress-related disability cases have doubled the past ten years. Two thirds of doctor's visits are stress-related.
Stress is associated with heart attacks, cancer, the common cold, and cardiovascular disease.
It can also lead to gastrointestinal, skin, neurological, and emotional disorders. Stress also leads to immunilogical breakdowns which make people especially susceptible to arthritis, AIDS, and a host of other sicknesses. More than half of deaths between the ages of 1 and 65 result from stressful lifestyles.