Week 5 7 Note that your first sentence here is a bit confusing and perhaps could/should be deleted out, Eddie. This is a great start, overall, but I'd suggest focusing on one side of the fence, so to speak, or the other. Try focusing on workplace stress, because when we come right down to it...unemployment is often a set of unique circumstances and something which different families all tend to handle differently. Focus on the workplace stress. What do experts regard as the top 2 or 3 causes and what solutions do they recommend? Is there a consensus? Week 5 Comment by Owner: This should be the title of your paper Billy Jones Rasmussen Author Notes This research is being submitted on February 4, 2014, for billy jones B371/GEB3110 Research and Report Writing Introduction Being employed and being unemployed presents different challenges that lead to stress. Unemployment leads to stress because it leads to loss of self-confidence and self-esteem, loss of a sense of security, loss of a purposeful activity, a loss of professional identity, loss of work-based social networks and loss of a daily routines. On the other hand, being employed has challenges of its own. Employed individuals experience stress caused by deadlines, heavy workload, and poor job security and demanding bosses (London, 2013). These lead to depression and anxiety among employees. Although most people feel that unemployed is more stressful than being employed, I discovered that having a job can cause the most stress in a person’s life. Comment by Owner: This is a good catchy first sentence. Your thesis should state what information or issues the paper will discuss. Reason that stress for being employed Comment by Owner: Title is not complete. Maybe try something like reasons for the employed to be stressed Work related stress makes individuals feel like their lives are at stake. Employees usually tie their identity to work and this increases pressure on individuals to excel. In the modern society, the most appropriate avenue to success is through hard work in the work place, which means that failure to excel causes more stress. According to Olpin & Hesson (2013), the way people feel is closely related to their performance at the work place. Demanding bosses and deadlines contribute to more stress at the work place. Most bosses exert pressure of their junior employees in order for them to earn promotions, which in turn heap more stress on subordinates. The competitiveness of the corporate environment means that more employees handle deadlines, which exert pressure on them. Additionally, failure to meet the deadlines causes reactions that are equivalent to reactions to danger such as palpitations, racing heart and sweaty palms (Maxon, 1999). Employment also cause stress if tools used to measure performance and progress m.

1. Week 5
7
Note that your first sentence here is a bit confusing and perhaps
could/should be deleted out, Eddie. This is a great start, overall,
but I'd suggest focusing on one side of the fence, so to speak, or
the other. Try focusing on workplace stress, because when we
come right down to it...unemployment is often a set of unique
circumstances and something which different families all tend
to handle differently. Focus on the workplace stress. What do
experts regard as the top 2 or 3 causes and what solutions do
they recommend? Is there a consensus?
Week 5 Comment by Owner: This should be the title of your
paper
Billy Jones
Rasmussen
Author Notes
This research is being submitted on February 4, 2014, for billy
jones B371/GEB3110 Research and Report Writing

2. Introduction
Being employed and being unemployed presents different
challenges that lead to stress. Unemployment leads to stress
because it leads to loss of self-confidence and self-esteem, loss
of a sense of security, loss of a purposeful activity, a loss of
professional identity, loss of work-based social networks and
loss of a daily routines. On the other hand, being employed has
challenges of its own. Employed individuals experience stress
caused by deadlines, heavy workload, and poor job security and
demanding bosses (London, 2013). These lead to depression and
anxiety among employees. Although most people feel that
unemployed is more stressful than being employed, I discovered
that having a job can cause the most stress in a person’s life.
Comment by Owner: This is a good catchy first sentence.
Your thesis should state what information or issues the paper
will discuss.
Reason that stress for being employed Comment by Owner:
Title is not complete. Maybe try something like reasons for the
employed to be stressed
Work related stress makes individuals feel like their lives are at
stake. Employees usually tie their identity to work and this
increases pressure on individuals to excel. In the modern
society, the most appropriate avenue to success is through hard
work in the work place, which means that failure to excel
causes more stress. According to Olpin & Hesson (2013), the
way people feel is closely related to their performance at the
work place. Demanding bosses and deadlines contribute to more
stress at the work place. Most bosses exert pressure of their
junior employees in order for them to earn promotions, which in
turn heap more stress on subordinates. The competitiveness of
the corporate environment means that more employees handle
deadlines, which exert pressure on them. Additionally, failure to

3. meet the deadlines causes reactions that are equivalent to
reactions to danger such as palpitations, racing heart and sweaty
palms (Maxon, 1999). Employment also cause stress if tools
used to measure performance and progress makes one insecure.
Such tools such as tying performance with promotions enhance
stress. Lastly, work places that have poor job security cause
stress because employees will live with a constant fear of losing
their jobs. Comment by Owner: I would do more research
for this paragraph to expand on reasons for stress being
employed. Things like machines breaking down, dealing with
customers/different types of people, or low pay/lack of raises.
Comment by Owner: The wording in this sentence was
confusing. “A tool such as tying performance with promotions
enhance stress by…”
Reason that stress for being Unemployed Comment by Owner:
Adjust to previous title changes
Unemployment causes stress in that an individual does not have
a way of making a living. The lack of a way of earning a living
is stressful because one lacks a way of meeting daily needs such
as food, healthcare, education and housing. Secondly,
unemployment causes stress because we lack a professional
identity when unemployed. According to (APA, 2014),
Employment influences the way we perceive ourselves and the
way others perceive us. Unemployed individuals are stressed
because they lack self-confidence and esteem that come with
being employed. Employment provides a sense of meaning,
structure and purpose in our lives and when unemployed one
lacks purposeful activity, which is a stressful experience.
Employment provides a sense of security because one is able to
meet daily needs and emergency expenses. The lack of job
security leads to constant worries, which contribute to stress.
Employment provides one with a daily routine and when,
unemployed one lacks daily routine, which is a stressful
experience because it can cause a loss of direction in life (Smith
& Segal, 2014). Another cause of stress is the lack of work-
based social network. This affects individuals who are single

4. because loneliness caused by lack of professional social
network especially if one had been employed before causes
stress. Comment by Owner: Great statement! Comment by
Owner: When unemployed,
Reason for no stress for being employed
There is no stress when one is employed because one has a way
of making a living. When one has a way of paying for daily
needs, they experience limited stress compared to those who are
unemployed. Secondly, there is no stress when one is employed
because they have a daily routine. They are busy and have
something to look forward to every day, which limits stress
caused by idleness. Individuals who are employed have a sense
of security that is provided by their work. They have financial
security, which is stressful when one lacks it (Broman et al,
2001). Since employment influences how we view ourselves and
how others view us, being employed enhances ourt self-esteem
and self-confidence, which lowers stress. Lastly, it is not
stressful when one is employed because they have a work-based
social network. This social network helps them relieve stressful
circumstances in life. Comment by Owner: I would expand
on this more, maybe include examples since everyone has
different expenses/priorities.
Reason for no stress for being Unemployed
Unemployed individuals do not experience stress that is caused
by a demanding job. Some jobs are both physically and
psychologically demanding, which contribute to stress that is
detrimental to health. Demanding jobs that are characterized by
deadlines and heavy workloads are highly stressing. Secondly,
unemployed individuals do not experience nasty and demanding
bosses, and are not stressed because they do not enjoy their
jobs. Nasty and demanding bosses cause stressful conflicts. Low
paying jobs and those with limited security are highly stressing
because the benefits they receive do not meet their daily needs
and poor job security leads to constant worries (Blair, 2012).
Lastly, there is no stress for being unemployed because some
tools adopted by employers in measuring performance and

5. progress contribute to insecurity. Such tools include
performance appraisals and performance contracts.
Conclusion of why more stress involves in being employed
Reasons why stress is more for being employed based on
research gathered Comment by Owner: Incomplete sentence. I
would chose one heading for the next part of information, either
this one or the conclusion heading
According to psychologist Malene Friss Andersen, the current
work place is characterized by demanding bosses and strict
deadlines that have to be met (Hodgekiss, 2012). According to
her, perfectionism is a behavior that is demanded by the labor
market on employees, which contributes to stress. In her
research, she interviewed employees who had sought time off
due to stress and found out most of those who suffered from
work related stress worked in jobs that required creativity,
personal commitment and knowledge. Additionally, she found
out that techniques used by companies to measure performance
make employees inflexible, insecure and susceptible to stress
(Hodgekiss, 2012). According to her, the parameters for
measuring success have become narrow and work related stress
is becoming an existential threat to employees. The work place
has become a potential avenue for fighting battles and realizing
recognition, which both contribute to stress.
My reason why stress is less for being unemployed based on
research gathered Comment by Owner: Title doesn’t match
information. The title states your reasons why, but the
paragraph discusses what others have researched
According to researchers from Australian National University,
people who do not enjoy their jobs or work in poor quality jobs
are more likely to experience stress than those who are
unemployed. The researchers concluded that those in poor
quality jobs experienced mental disorders such as depression
and anxiety compared to unemployed individuals. Eelier
research supports this conclusion because it found that
individuals who are unhappy with their work are likely to
experience high blood pressure even when they are not working.

6. Additionally, researchers from university college of London
found that individuals who are passed over during promotions
are more likely to experience heart diseases than those who are
promoted (Olpin, & Hesson, 2013). This implies that
unemployed individuals are not exposed to such risks. The
research studies show that it is more stressing when one is
employed compared to when one is unemployed. Comment by
Owner: earlier
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