“Stress”, Canadian Mental Health Association, 2018. Workplace stress then is the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands.Anxiety can cause you problems at work. Perhaps it leads you to misjudge what other people think of you, react defensively to feedback, focus on risks when facing new ideas or avoid certain situations which creates an impression that you're difficult.

here are three stages of stress: the alarm, resistance and exhaustion stages. The alarm stage is also known as the fight or flight stage.In 2019, 94% of American workers report experiencing stress at their workplace. According to Wrike's United States stress statistics from 2019, only 6% of workers don't report feeling stressed at work. Around 23% of them described their stress levels as high, while 6% said their levels of stress were unreasonably high.

Other signs and symptoms of excessive stress at work include:

Feeling anxious, irritable, or depressed. Apathy, loss of interest in work. Problems sleeping. Fatigue. Trouble concentrating.