DOHA: Having a low salary is a major factor contributing to stress in the workplaces in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Participating in a poll conducted by Bayt.com, a job site, around 28 percent of respondents from MENA said having a low salary is the main stress factor at work for them.
The poll titled ‘Stress in the MENA Workplace’ was conducted to look at the various factors that contribute to stress in workplaces across the region.
Other stress factors include a lack of job security (12.3 percent), the workplace environment (9.7 percent) and not having a work-life balance (9.1 percent).
The poll revealed that more than half of respondents in the region agree that workplaces today are more stressful than they were a few years back (52 percent), and more than two thirds (69.1 percent) agree that they feel more pressure at work this year in comparison to last year.
Majority of respondents feel overwhelmed at work (83 percent), with 26.2 percent feeling overwhelmed ‘all of the time’, and 74.8 percent claiming that jobs at their companies are more demanding than others.
More than a third (35 percent) claim to spend too much time at work, while a quarter say that they spend just the right amount of time. Just 2.9 percent admit that they are spending too little time at work.
According to respondents, stress does not affect work performance the most.
For them, stress affects their family relations the most, with 27.9 percent of the respondents saying so.
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