In tEWn

Last year, I ran a series of blog posts about stress. I appreciate the opportunity to share with readers the “demand control” model of stress, which is embraced by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, but in the US has fallen on deaf ears. Too often, employers’ only solution to employee stress is to provide simplistic behavioral programs. While these programs have value, they overstate the role of individual control over stress, and they substantially understate — in fact, ignore — the fact that the workplace itself is at the root of most employee stress.

Here’s an infographic — courtesy of the innovative folks at Visual Loop and Infographic World — that depicts the dynamics of workplace stress:

Visual Loop