The No. 1 source of work-related stress for recent graduates is long work hours, followed by pressure to reach sales targets, a Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) survey showed.
In the past couple of months, as young people have graduated from school and started their first full-time job, they are faced with the typical challenges that come with adjusting to a new environment.
A survey of 3,069 recent graduates conducted in July by the Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training’s online job bank, eJob, showed that long, inflexible work hours are the top source of job-related stress plaguing young workers fresh out of school, earning 29 percent (896 people) of respondents’ votes.
Young workers who feel pressured to reach sales targets follow closely after, with 28 percent (846 people) citing the issue.
Other frequently encountered sources of job-related stress include: “dealing with supervisors’ high expectations” (18 percent), “heavy workload” (8 percent), “difficulty getting along with co-workers” (7 percent) and “coping with company policies” (6 percent).
“Many young people start to realize that the ‘real world’ is much different from the school environment that they are used to,” said Hu Yu-chen (胡玉珍), a manager at the online bank. “It takes some time for young people to be able to adjust to the working environment, but this is something all young workers must go through.”
Hu encouraged young people who are encountering difficulties not to give up easily because frequent job hopping raises suspicions in the eyes of potential future employers.
Workers who leave a job at the first sign of difficulty signals to employers that they cannot handle work-related stress or challenges that occur in the workplace, Hu said.
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