Increasing stress levels generate concern
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October 20, 2012, Saturday
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GROWING levels of stress among China's work force has raised public concern and sparked a heated discussion among the Internet community.
Some 75 percent of workers feel more pressure this year than last, according to a September poll conducted by serviced office space provider Regus.
The survey, which canvassed the opinions of more than 16,000 workers worldwide, put the global average at 48 percent. It concluded China held the highest rate of increasing stress levels of all countries polled. The leading causes of stress were identified as employment, finances and customers.
While the result remains controversial in China due to Japan's greater reputation for stressed-out employees, Chinese workers are indeed experiencing more pressure from work than before, said Xiao Minzheng, director of Peking University's Center for Human Resource Development and Management Research.
The poll said stress levels rose for 45 percent of workers in Japan and 58 percent in Germany, which came second in Regus's rankings of increased stress.
"China has yet to improve its housing, health care and pension systems, and that's why Chinese workers feel more pressure," Xiao said.
The Regus poll was widely circulated via Chinese media after its publication, and the result was echoed by another online survey launched by Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblog.
The Sina poll, which had garnered responses from more than 6,800 Chinese Internet users by 4pm on Thursday, showed that more than 6,500 said they feel "pressure." The choices of the poll were limited to "yes" or "no."
Many Internet users have commented on the topic. Some believe pressure is increasing in the workplace because of more competition, greater ambition to succeed, the lack of a social security network, and the lack of psychological counseling.
"The biggest pressure is that I'm not sure what will happen in the future," wrote someone identified by the screen name "Song of Darkness."
Few microbloggers said they don't feel any pressure, although some dismissed the aspirations driving many people's career anxieties. "Want less, care less, less pressure," wrote "Daodaoxinqing."
Stress caused by jobs has become a source of great public concern, especially since the past few years that have seen several cases of young workers dying suddenly at work or committing suicide as a result of the pressure they were under.
Some 75 percent of workers feel more pressure this year than last, according to a September poll conducted by serviced office space provider Regus.
The survey, which canvassed the opinions of more than 16,000 workers worldwide, put the global average at 48 percent. It concluded China held the highest rate of increasing stress levels of all countries polled. The leading causes of stress were identified as employment, finances and customers.
While the result remains controversial in China due to Japan's greater reputation for stressed-out employees, Chinese workers are indeed experiencing more pressure from work than before, said Xiao Minzheng, director of Peking University's Center for Human Resource Development and Management Research.
The poll said stress levels rose for 45 percent of workers in Japan and 58 percent in Germany, which came second in Regus's rankings of increased stress.
"China has yet to improve its housing, health care and pension systems, and that's why Chinese workers feel more pressure," Xiao said.
The Regus poll was widely circulated via Chinese media after its publication, and the result was echoed by another online survey launched by Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblog.
The Sina poll, which had garnered responses from more than 6,800 Chinese Internet users by 4pm on Thursday, showed that more than 6,500 said they feel "pressure." The choices of the poll were limited to "yes" or "no."
Many Internet users have commented on the topic. Some believe pressure is increasing in the workplace because of more competition, greater ambition to succeed, the lack of a social security network, and the lack of psychological counseling.
"The biggest pressure is that I'm not sure what will happen in the future," wrote someone identified by the screen name "Song of Darkness."
Few microbloggers said they don't feel any pressure, although some dismissed the aspirations driving many people's career anxieties. "Want less, care less, less pressure," wrote "Daodaoxinqing."
Stress caused by jobs has become a source of great public concern, especially since the past few years that have seen several cases of young workers dying suddenly at work or committing suicide as a result of the pressure they were under.
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