Currently, the workload is very high, we are sitting at home and only working from home. Employees are given various tasks and they also have other work related to the house. This leads to stress and which affect negatively. So, how to overcome this?
According to me, whenever I feel stress , I leave my work and trying to rest myself . Swimming is so useful in such a situation .
I think strict time balance is totally necessary for situations like this, but someone can also take in-between breaks to rest mentally and physically. Maybe constructing a to-do list could guide to performing more tasks and leaves us feeling accomplished and rewarded, which is a feeling we all need after long day of work.
Taking time to change the weather, such as traveling or camping on the land.
Make daily activity schedule inculde physical, mental, spiritual activites along with job activity
According to me, whenever I feel stress , I leave my work and trying to rest myself . Swimming is so useful in such a situation .
I think time management is crucial to reduce workload stress. However, if someone has the option, he/she can take a break from work & do something that pleases him/her. A small trip might help. Even meditation helps a lot to reduce stress.
Accept your limits. Admit that you can't do all of your works at the first step towards getting the situation back under control. Pick and prioritize. One thing at a time. Be kind to yourself.
Work kife balance and having a good peer group at work helps a lot
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Thanks for valuable reply to this discussion.
Time Management, Work Life balance, Good peer group, Meditation, Take break and do physical exercise e.g. swimming, biking,e etc., Traveling or Camping on the land these are the key reply received. Thanks for valuable reply.
Time management and recreation activities help to reduce the stress to much larger extent. The person should also try to communicate with family and friends as they act as stress busters
Dear Dr. Akash Gupta it is an interesting question. I have got an interesting link mentioning several issues (https://www.lifehack.org/818783/heavy-workload). I hope it will help you much. Please go through the link for a detailed explanation. Good luck
- Acknowledge You Can't Do It All. ...
- Focus on Your Unique Strengths. ...
- Use the Strengths of Your Team. ...
- Take Time for Planning. ...
- Focus on Priorities. ...
- Take Time Out. ...
- Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance. ...
- Stop Multitasking.
Conference Paper The Impact of Workload and Fatigue on Performance
Article Workload Management Strategies and Employees Efficiency in t...
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https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/cwf/research/publications/executivebriefingseries/ExecutiveBriefing_PPT_BusinessorBusyness_StrategiesforManagingWorkload.pdf
Conference Paper The Impact of Workload and Fatigue on Performance
One of the Way is spent little time with your kids and play with them like your childhood days
Look For Different Ways To Get The Job Done. To cope with the extra workload, call center managers need to think outside the box. Simply asking your agents to "turn up the crank" and work faster and harder won't solve your problems. Chances are they are already doing their best to turn out quality work as quickly as possible.
To get through the pile of work, you and your team need to find more efficient ways to get the job done.
Schedule in a brainstorming session with your agents and find the means to simplify processes or eliminate certain tasks altogether.
By addressing this as a team, you will get a variety of ideas and foster an environment that shows you value their input.
https://blog.playvox.com/how-to-manage-a-heavy-workload-without-increasing-staff-or-losing-efficiency
Reduce your workload, reduce stress. Acknowledge your limits. If you have an unrealistically heavy workload, admitting that you can't do it all is the first step towards getting the situation back under control. ...
Pick and prioritise. ...
One thing at a time. ...
Deal with deadlines. ...
Be good to yourself.
https://www.caba.org.uk/help-and-guides/information/reduce-your-workload-reduce-stress
Prioritize Your Tasks. There will always be more tasks than your capacity and the time to complete them all but of course you can't get everything done. Complete Your Tasks in a Limited Time. Stay Up-to-Date. Don't Waste Your Time on Perfectionism. Set Realistic Goals. Share the Burden. Do One Task at a time. Stay ... https://blog.taskque.com/how-to-deal-with-an-overwhelming-workload-10-step-guide/
Hello,
I appreciate all answers and comments from colleagues. These are helpful points which can help us overcome the stressful moments in our life. Beemnet Mengesha and Chinaza Godswill refer to good points and emphasize on the issue priority. I agree with them, prioritizing our tasks can be considered on top of all our demands encountering high workload stress.
Good luck, Elaheh
Set Realistic Goals. Set the realistic, achievable deadlines, so that resources can stick to it. Don’t give your resources and colleagues unrealistic deadlines. You your job very know very well, so don’t expect other to get the task completed in unrealistic time frame. Manage your expectations, be realistic.
https://blog.taskque.com/how-to-deal-with-an-overwhelming-workload-10-step-guide/
Share the Burden with your team. The great thing about being part of a project is having other people to help out when other projects are taking priority and things are getting particularly tough. Talk to your boss to redistribute your workload so you can easily complete what’s on your plate. Find out what is most important to stay on your to-do list and what tasks can be pushed back or assigned to someone else. Sharing the workload with the rest of the team can really help you make your deadlines and prove it that you can handle it all. https://blog.taskque.com/how-to-deal-with-an-overwhelming-workload-10-step-guide/
Do One Task at a time. Do one task at a time is a great way to manage your task schedule and meeting your deadlines. As moving from one tasks to another can make things more enjoyable, bearable, especially when you are particularly tackling something difficult.
However, if you are contending with a heavy workload, work on task at a time is a worthwhile option for your peace of mind. https://blog.taskque.com/how-to-deal-with-an-overwhelming-workload-10-step-guide/
In my opinion, with proper planning, stress can be prevented and by doing relaxation, etc., it can be eliminated.
Healthy lifestyle, spending time with family, having a good peer group at workplace, regular meditation, having a hobby and not having a type a personality helps overcoming stress until and unless there is some undiagnosed mental health issues.
Akash, there is that temptation when working from home to want to do a lot more than one would normally do within the usual office/workplace environment. The danger though is that doing so consistently and constantly could potentially lead to over-working oneself, anxiety and stress for having taken on too much. Striking a balance between work commitments and family life or life outside of work could be a good starting point to control, minimise and potentially eradicate the stress and anxiety that over-working could bring. It may also be useful to know what one's physical and mental limits are and to have some degree of control on what ought to be done. Interesting stuff...
Time blocking method and setting the Pomodoro for 25 minutes can help someone to overcome high workload stress @ Akash Gupta .
Hello,
I appreciate all answers and your contribution in this important discussion. Beside the knowledge that you colleagues are sharing here and I am totally in agreement with all your statements, I want to recommend the method which Shamima Nasren is describing here. This method was suggested to me by my peer-coaching team during my doctoral study to overcome the high workload stress of PhD thesis. Applying time blocking method could help me to do a good time planning and manage all tasks to be done on time. By this method persons have relief in mind at the end of the day that all their scheduled plans were done.
Good luck, Elaheh
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Dear Akash Gupta A positive mindset and meditation is likely to overcome the workload stress. The second, I would suggest is to focus on work, and not on result.
Thanks!
Take a break and engage in activities that are not stressful. Having a good time with friends, your family and watching movies or engaging in any extracurricular activities of your choice can be helpful.
It is to learn to say no. To say no to someone else means saying yes to yourself. You are replaceable when you attract a disease.
Just think about your work and do it completely and carefully and do not do anything else until you have finished it. Work with passion and be honest.If you have a valuable goal, the workload stress does not matter.
Applying your time management still and engaging in activities that can relieve one of the stress.
Prepare to-do lists and try to follow them to minimize the wasted time.
If you have a regular schedule to get things done, your stress will be reduced. In addition , do not accept a work that is difficult for you.
One thing that has been helping me is writing down my works/activities in order of importance a day before (before going to sleep). And I make sure I accomplish at least 90% of whatever I have written down.
In my experience, this has helped me to achieve a lot and reduced my stress. Especially the stress of where to start the work of the day (since I have a lot of works calling for my attention simultaneously), and getting a considerable amount of works done.
I feel mentally stressed if I could not conclude a considerable amount of task in a day. But ever since I started using this method, I have been doing well.
Involvement of interest in a productive manner will help to reduce the high workload stress, Akash Gupta
Task lists, like other answers, are certainly useful. I have found that some people worry about and point to a range of factors beyond their control or influence, when discussing how they might prioritise and manage their work.
It's a little old fashioned, but getting people to write down all of the things they need to do, including those things that they are worried about is a useful first step.
You can then go about prioritising these, but how?
Arranging your list into 3 clear categories may help.
Firstly, what can you control?
Secondly, what can you influence directly or through others?
Thirdly, what have you no control or influence over?
Focusing on the first category will mean you can get things done, which will be motivating for many. The second category is more challenging and requires some planning, but again, you have influence and can start working on these things.
Whilst you may need to monitor the third category, in case things change, accepting that there isn't a great deal you can do about these issues may lift stress levels and motivate you more to work on categories one and two.
This approach has worked for me, so I thought I'd share it.
The simplest solution would be 'not to work'. However, this solution may not be rea;istic as we have to work for money to live. Try to find a job that you enjoy. Sometimes, hobbies can be turned into a successful profession, which can be enoyable!
Need to find balance between priority targets that have to be completed daily and those that can wait for later. Then like at work need to take breaks for a short walk or other exercise. That helps to concentrate into your everyday tasks.
completing duties in terms of priority is a better answer.
Prioritize Your Tasks. There will always be more tasks than your capacity and the time to complete them all but of course you can't get everything done. ...
Complete Your Tasks in a Limited Time. ...
Stay Up-to-Date. ...
Don't Waste Your Time on Perfectionism. ...
Set Realistic Goals. ...
Share the Burden. ...
Do One Task at a time. ...
Stay Focused.
Acknowledge your limits. If you have an unrealistically heavy workload, admitting that you can't do it all is the first step towards getting the situation back under control. ...
Pick and prioritise. ...
One thing at a time. ...
Deal with deadlines. ...
Be good to yourself.
Use these tips to prevent or reduce chronic stress:
Re-balance Work and Home.
Build in Regular Exercise.
Eat Well and Limit Stimulants.
Connect with Supportive People.
Carve out Hobby Time.
Practice Meditation, Stress Reduction or Yoga.
Sleep Enough.
Bond with Your Pet.
Regular physical activity. Regular exercise and physical activity is necessary to maintain good health. ...
Prioritize things in your life. ...
Spend time with friends and family. ...
Maintain a positive attitude. ...
Practice stress reducing techniques. ...
Do nothing. ...
Get plenty of sleep. ...
Identify things that cause you stress.
Some ways of dealing with stress to consider are mindfulness or meditation, getting rid of interruptions or distractions, prioritizing and balancing your work, and using stress as a motivator, among others. Talk about how pressure motivates you.
Relaxing the mind
Take slow, deep breaths. Or try other breathing exercises for relaxation. ...
Soak in a warm bath.
Listen to soothing music.
Practice mindful meditation. The goal of mindful meditation is to focus your attention on things that are happening right now in the present moment. ...
Write. ...
Use guided imagery.
Here are six strategies for how to manage a heavy workload and cope with the extra items on your to-do list as well as your teams: Look For Different Ways To Get The Job Done. Prioritize and Set Achievable Deadlines. Assess Yourself. Practice Being a Good Communicator. Take it One Chunk at a Time. Take Breaks.
We shall properly manage our time and give priority to those tasks of the highest urgency first. I hope that will somehow minimize the workload.
Akash Gupta
Dear Researcher,
Thank you for the great topic of discussion. In this topic, you have talked about one type of stress i.e. work related stress under the circumstances. I learnt a formula from world famous management and self-improvement expert, Robin Sharma. This is a generalized method and works great in managing all types of stress.
When we are stressed out, the best way to beat that is to improve our physical fitness. On improving our physical fitness, we need less sleep and can work longer. The hormones that cause happiness are secreted in bigger volumes. Thus, the fizz comes back. I found this formula very effective.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
Track your stressors so you know what you can and should do about it.
Akash Gupta, please have a look at the following RG links:
Chapter Stress Management
Article Stress Management: Concept and Approaches
Article STRESS MANAGEMENT -AN ULTIMATE NEED OF THE HOUR TO SUCCEED
Article Stress Management - A Case Study
Article Work Culture: Stress Management in Reducing Stress and Impro...
Stress can come from a lack of certain vitamins. Several supplements promote stress and anxiety reduction.
Proper time management. Good time management enables you to work smarter, not harder. Furthermore, health comes first; so it is beneficial to reduce the total hours of home working.
Dear Dr. Akash Gupta , this is a relevant question considering the pandemic situation. In fact, the pandemic has created two (extreme) situations. One is joblessness/unemployment and the other is job-burnout due to excess work load. Stress is a situation in which an individual is unable to complete his/her task within the expected time. So, one of the main reason for stress is unrealistic expectations. There are many ways to deal with and the important methods are
1. Equipping oneself with the skills required
2. Seeking the support of family/friends and well-wishers.
3. Seeking advice of mentors/counselors
4. Looking at many alternatives (sometimes we may be better/effective doing some other job) For example many cricketers while fading chose commentator role.
5. Being little more philosophical - or meditation or praying (God).
But, there is always at least a Way (out).
Warm regards Yoganandan G
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