How does that employee communicate his concerns about excessive stress to his manager?
You can, of course, try to talk to your manager, and your manager may be sensitive to it if it’s brought to them. Many companies have employee assistance programs that are private referral – they can go talk to someone who is a professional in dealing with stress levels and get help without the company being aware that they are fighting that battle. And one of the big problems, I think, is a lot of the very serious stressors are also very personal. If you have a serious disease you may not want to tell the people at the office if you can avoid it. IT workers have people problems just like everybody else and then we layer some of the other problems of the IT environment on top of the people problems. For IT workers who don’t deal with their stress levels, what are there risks? The higher your stress level, and the longer it stays that way, there are serious medical risks. If you have a high stress level, you have an 80 percent chance of contracting some significant illness in the next t
