83% of Americans stressed by work — Transcript

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1. 0:00Good evening and welcome to 22 News at
2. 0:025:30. I'm Laura Hutchinson. The economy
3. 0:04may be moving in the right direction,
4. 0:06but Americans are more stressed than
5. 0:08ever. 22 News reporter Julie McDonald
6. 0:11breaks down a new report that shows what
7. 0:13exactly stresses us out at the
8. 0:15workplace.
9. 0:17You get out of your job what you put
10. 0:18into
11. 0:19it. If you're, you know, if you allow
12. 0:22yourself to be stressed, then you're
13. 0:23going to be stressed. Me just coast. If
14. 0:26you're someone who leaves work and all
15. 0:28thoughts of it in the cubicle, well,
16. 0:30you're one of the lucky ones. A new
17. 0:32survey from Evers College shows 83% of
18. 0:35Americans are stressed out by at least
19. 0:37one thing at work, and that's up 10%
20. 0:39since last year. Low pay and
21. 0:41unreasonable workload were tied for
22. 0:43first place as the biggest causes of
23. 0:44stress. Other factors to make the list
24. 0:46included annoying co-workers, not having
25. 0:49a job in a desired field, or the fear of
26. 0:51being laid off. I'm a mechanic, so I
27. 0:54mean, if it's slow, we don't get paid
28. 0:56because we're flat rate. So, that's a
29. 0:58big bummer for us. Even though plenty of
30. 1:00signs point to a slowly improving
31. 1:02economy, many employees are still doing
32. 1:04more work with fewer resources for the
33. 1:06same pay as a result of the recession.
34. 1:09That stress doesn't just impact health
35. 1:11and personal life, but it can also take
36. 1:13a toll on the way you perform the job
37. 1:15that causes the stress in the first
38. 1:17place. As for those 17% of people who
39. 1:20aren't stressed on the job, don't be too
40. 1:22envious of them. It doesn't necessarily
41. 1:24mean they're living worry-f free. I got
42. 1:27two teenage kids, so there's almost more
43. 1:29stress in that, so I look at work as a
44. 1:33time to relax a little bit. Julie
45. 1:35McDonald, 22 News. And 22 News is
46. 1:38working for you tonight with five simple
47. 1:39ways to reduce stress in your life. Just
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