{"id":2170,"date":"2017-11-14T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2017-11-15T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:35:18","slug":"source-of-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/source-of-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"This Universal Problem Is the No. 1 Source of Stress at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the grueling commute, the long hours, and the coworker who doesn\u2019t know when to stop talking. For most people, a lack of clear objectives is their biggest source of stress at work.<\/p>\n<p><b>The clarity gap<\/b><\/p>\n<p>42% of workers say having unclear goals is their top source of stress.\u00a0The second-most popular responses were \u201ccommute\u201d and \u201cbad manager\u201d (tied at 16%), followed by \u201cdifficult co-worker\u201d (14%) and \u201ctoo long hours% (12%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1976\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/lala.png\" alt=\"lala\" width=\"1307\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/lala-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/lala-768x203.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/lala-1024x271.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/lala.png 1307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>An across-the-board problem\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnclear goals\u201d was the most popular response across every gender, department and age group.<\/p>\n<p>Sampling of responses by age:<\/p>\n<p>18 to 25<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1977\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/A.png\" alt=\"A\" width=\"395\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/A-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/A.png 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>31 to 35<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1978\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/B-1.png\" alt=\"B\" width=\"415\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/B-1-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/B-1.png 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 85vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>51 to 55<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/C.png\" alt=\"C\" width=\"419\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/C-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/C.png 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 85vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1980\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-1.png\" alt=\"MW\" width=\"1017\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-1-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-1-768x264.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-1.png 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget the grueling commute, the long hours, and the coworker who doesn\u2019t know when to stop talking. For most people, a lack of clear objectives is their biggest source of stress at work. The clarity gap 42% of workers say having unclear goals is their top source of stress.\u00a0The second-most popular responses were \u201ccommute\u201d and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/source-of-stress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}