{"id":7429,"date":"2019-11-21T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:10:24","slug":"help-employees-overcome-pre-work-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/help-employees-overcome-pre-work-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Help Employees Overcome Pre-Work Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7431\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/laptop-3087585_1280.jpg\" alt=\"help employees overcome pre-work stress\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/laptop-3087585_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/laptop-3087585_1280-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/laptop-3087585_1280-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1280px, 100vw\" \/>It\u2019s 8 p.m. on a Sunday. You spent the last two hours dreading the upcoming workweek. As the night progresses, your anxiety only gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this doesn\u2019t sound familiar to you, it does to about 75 percent of U.S. adults, and likely many of your employees.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Monster survey, three quarters of the country consistently feel \u201creally bad\u201d anxiety on Sundays, the day before work starts.<\/p>\n<p>This perpetual stress can spread through the workplace and wreak all sorts of havoc, leading to lower productivity, higher absenteeism and poorer mental health. But there are ways you can help employees overcome pre-work stress.<\/p>\n<h2>What Can You Do?<\/h2>\n<p>Pre-work stress, or the \u201cSunday blues,\u201d can be brought on by a number of factors.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no blanket cure, you can still work to reduce employee stress. Here are some tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sit down with employees to discuss workloads and reassign tasks as needed.<\/li>\n<li>Track employees\u2019 accomplishments publicly and recognize hard work.<\/li>\n<li>Implement a \u201cno work after work hours\u201d policy to promote a better work-life balance.<\/li>\n<li>Help employees form and execute meaningful career goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Above all, encourage employees to come to you if they feel stressed. An open-door policy can help address issues before they get out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>Get HR advice like this on what you need, when you need it. <a href=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/what-we-offer\/hr\/\">GTM&#8217;s business HR services<\/a> provide guides, articles, checklists, policy templates, and more, all available 24\/7 from any device. <a href=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/get-a-quote\/\">Request a quote to learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2019 Zywave, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSunday blues\u201d can be brought on by a number of factors, but you can help employees overcome pre-work stress with these tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[16,19],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consulting-services","tag-employees","tag-human-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}