{"id":476,"date":"2017-05-10T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2017-05-10T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:31:57","slug":"stress-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/stress-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The No. 1 Thing That Stresses People Out at Work Is Having Unclear Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, 42% of workers in technology ranked \u201cunclear goals\u201d as their main stressor, according to the latest reading of an ongoing <\/span>query<\/span><\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. \u201cBad manager\u201d and \u201ccommute\u201d were next (each trailing behind with 16% of the vote), followed by \u201cdifficult coworker\u201d (14%) and \u201ctoo long hours\u201d (12%). <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cUnclear goals\u201d was the most popular response across every department — from admin to engineering to marketing to legal — as well as every age group 18 to 60. The only area where there was a tie was among 61 to 65 year olds, who said having a bad manager was just stressful.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Workers age 61 to 65 were the only group to think that having a lousy manager is just as bad as having unclear goals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The responses came from more than 10,000 men and women across the technology industry. The latest reading is as of May 10.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Indeed, 42% of workers in technology ranked \u201cunclear goals\u201d as their main stressor, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[50,49,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}