A recent survey by the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) showed that the most common means by which office workers deal with stress is by going to sleep.
In an online survey conducted from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30 by the council’s online job bank eJob, about 26 percent of the 4,711 respondents said they deal with stress by going to sleep.
Other popular forms of stress relief included travel and sightseeing (21 percent), sports or recreational activities (12 percent), shopping (11 percent) and wining and dining (9 percent), the survey found.
Asked what kinds of problems they were most concerned with, 20 percent of respondents said depression, followed by insomnia (14 percent), back pain (11 percent) and poor body shape (10 percent).
Council officials said they were concerned that recent job losses caused by the global financial downturn have caused many workers to take on a bigger workload, resulting in increased work-related stress and increases in overtime put in by workers who are not laid off by companies.
Such a stressful work environment could lead to more serious problems, they said.
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