According to human resource (HR) specialists, very few managers on the Romanian market have succeeded in maintaining an optimal level of stress in the companies or departments they run. However, not only overworking employees has a negative effect on the business, but also the lack of activity of certain employees leads to financial losses.
In this time of crisis, almost all employees are overworked, because personnel downsizing processes led to tasks being redistributed among the remaining employees. “If by the end of 2008 we were used to obtaining certain results in a specific period of time, the current market context pressures us to get the same results, considering that we have far less resources,” Bogdan Pode, Senior Trainer for Human Invest, said.
According to HR specialists, the industries with employees who now have more tasks than they did last year are production and retail. “In the banking system, we could say that employees switched from being overworked to underworked this year,” said Madalina Popescu, General Manager of the Pluri Consultants human resource company.
“I believe that being underworked is even more harmful than being overworked, and managers who let their employees sit around doing nothing are guiltier than the others. When you are overstressed, you get used to this state in the end, and perceive this as optimal stress. On the other hand, being understressed is similar to depression, which it is very difficult to overcome,” Popescu added.
