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Everything that happens at our work place has a positive or negative impact on us. I will be talking on the positive and negative impacts that can be resulted from working under pressure. We all know that not all managers are equal in ways of handling their duties. We have some who will prefer working under a certain measure of speed and produce a quality services or product while others will prefer making their employees work under a particular pressure so as to facilitate the results being produced.
So, you have to know that both; working under pressure and working without it has negative and positive results. We all like working in a moderate speed without pressure being applied to us. No one wants to be hired in a company that is always making the employees on toes. People need to rest too for a precise period of time.
If you are somebody who is used to work very slowly or in your own pace, it will be very difficult for you to last even a month in a company where the manager is constantly pushing employees to work under pressure. It’s better you get used to both situations. When you are required to work at a specified speed then do so. Make yourself comfortable and flexible with any schedule.
Don’t be too rigid, you will never work in the same company forever. It’s recommended we get used to both situations.
What can make employees work under pressure?
There are several things that can make employees work under pressure. The first thing is; to produce a certain number of products over a short period of time. It might not be product only but also services. When your manager or your employer has given you a point where you have to reach at a particular period of time then you will have no choice but to work it out.
This argue of you wanting to finish the work in the allocated time will drive you in working under pressure. Whether you like it or not you will have to find a way of get the desired results in the required timeline. Here, you want to prove your competency and reliability. So, for you to please your employer you will have no choice but to go with the pace that is required.
The second thing that makes employees to work under pressure is; to cover for the work load that had been left when for him/her after he/she went for unofficial leave. We know these situations where by you get an emergency and you will have no any other alternative than to remain at home. In such a case you aren’t on an official leave. You make few phone calls to your employer or manager and you are allowed to spend two or three days at home.
Remember that as you are at home your sector stays untouched since your leave wasn’t official. Your work will be pilling up. When you come back later from the issues you were handling the piece of work will be still waiting for you. For you to catch up with the other employees you will have to work under pressure so that you can be at the same level with the other employees.
These are only but few examples in cases where an employee will have to work under pressure. As I said earlier, there are always consequences of working under pressure. There can be either bad or good impacts on the employees.
Here are the advantages (merits) of working under pressure.
You acquire time management skills from working under pressure.
Working under pressure brings positive results to you as an individual. If you work under pressure you will be able to attain time management skills. I have outlined one of the reasons to why an employee will be forced to work under pressure and one of it was to produce or deliver a specific number of products or services at a certain period of time.
When you have been given a deadline to meet on the number of products or services that you will have to deliver to your manager or employer, you will have to plan your time effectively so that you can achieve what you are working for. You will not waste any single second with irrelevant conversations with your co-workers. Your mind will be focused on finishing the task that was handed to you by your employer.
In this case you will be able to handle and manipulate your time in a manner that after that piece of work you had been handled you will be freaking awesome on managing your time. In which many of the employees ignore this measure of time. Time management is an essential skill when it comes in handling your workloads.
Time management can either make you get fired or promoted. Every employer or manager wants his or her employees to know how to manage their time efficiently because that determines the success of the firm.
It guarantees the success of the company or project to be handled.
As the employees will be working under pressure not only will they gain time management skills but it will also be facilitating the success of the company. How will working under pressure promotes the success of the company?
We all know that pressure makes people active in the work place. The mind concept switches to work mood. Everyone will be working hard to get the desired results for the company. In this case the products or services being produced will be at a higher peak. If the products or services being delivered satisfy the need of the consumers and are produced at measureable amount, there is a great chance that the firm will sell more of its products or services thus facilitating the success of it.
No one will need products or services from company that can’t meet its deadline. I will not go to order products from firm which I know it will take years to get for me the products I desire. I will always go for the companies that can deliver to me the products or services that I require at the entailed time.
So, we have now seen how this can impact the company. Employees working under pressure will be motivated to finish their workloads on time hence the success of the firm. I can also say that if it a project to be handled, it will thrive.
As people unite together to work at a specified speed on a project that means each and every able employee will be focused on completing the project on the desired time. If all employees get this right then that means the firm will be one step ahead of its competitors.
Its enables team work building.
Yes! Team building will be enhanced on working under pressure. This is another advantage of working under pressure. Let me elaborate how this is achieved.
Working under pressure in a firm isn’t only connected to one employee. When the firm needs certain amount of products to be produced at entailed time then it’s all the employees will be under pressure. For them to pull this off is to join their hands on working it out. It is obvious without them making a one team nothing will be accomplished at all.
They will have to sit down and discussion how they are going to make this work. That is what I would do. I will sit together with my fellow employees and find a way out. The staffs will have to assign each and every one part that he or she will work on.
We know that the products or services to be delivered will be connected to all workers. So, it will be up to them to make a team that will be aiming at achieving the same goal. The process of working hand on hand with each other will bring up the spirit of team building into the employees.
It makes an employee focused.
Working under pressure will make an employee focused. Do you want to know how?
So, let me get onto it. From what I mentioned earlier that working under pressure will enable you to acquire time management skills; it will also keep you focused on the task you are working on.
When you are working under pressure your mind will be activated and your only goal will be to deliver the required product at a specified time. This will shift your focus to everything else but to the work you are working on. It will make you tied completely to your work schedule since you want to finish the piece of work that was handed to you by your manager.
We all know that if you aim at accomplishing a certain task that have been handed to you, you will turn down everything else that you have been doing in order to achieve the desired results at the right time. The process of you leaving everything else and keeping your eyes open on one task that is required and it has a deadline that is what we call focus.
With focus the workers will be able to do anything meaningful in the work place and meet the desired goals. This is a quality that everyone has to own in order to make his work successful.
It helps the employees to be motivated.
Working under pressure helps the employees to be motivated and increases the work energy. When all the employees are under pressure no one will want to be left behind dragging. Everyone will want to go with the pace that their fellow employees are on.
This will make them so fast and energized. It would be a shame on you, when your fellows are running at a speed of 30km/hr while you at 10km/hr. Even the lazy employees will get the positive spirit of the working pace that every worker is on. This will motivate them to work in a required measure in order to accomplish the set goals.
I wouldn’t want to be left behind. When you drag yourself while others are working tirelessly you will feel left out. You will start to feel guilty. This will make you get motivated and energized to work under the same pressures that your co-workers are on.
You are definitely aware that if you go too slowly then you might lose your chance at that job. You will be the only person pulling the other workers down. There will be no harm if the manager of the employer decides to fire you. I’m sure no one wants such a thing to happen to him or her.
These are the few advantages of working under pressure that I have outlined in this article. You have to know that there are so many benefits that I haven’t talked about. Don’t fail to leave your comment when you find two or three of the merits of working under pressure that I have left behind.
As I said that working under pressure has positive results it also has negative ones.
Let me not waste your precious time and outline for you the negative impacts of working under extreme pressure. Everything has its positive and negative side. We all know this say,
Too much of something is poison
If the pressure at the work place is too extreme it will be catastrophic. We are human beings. We have a breaking point. Our brain can work up to a certain speed to its optimum and it will later slows down and remain steady. In this case, instead of the work to make a step forward it will be neither moving forward nor going back.
The effects are so many; I can’t mention them all but I’ll try my best to give you the most of what I know…
These are the disadvantages of working under extreme pressure.
Working under extreme pressure leads to mental fatigue.
Yes! Let me go straight to it. As I said earlier that working under extreme pressure has negative results and this is one of them. We are not machines. We use energy that is derived from our bodies. The energy produced within our bodies is not infinite. As we all know that the energy produced from our body controls every function.
The moment when you have used too much of your energy thinking on how you can solve the puzzle of the work load in front of you, it will reach a point where your brain won’t work anymore until you get sufficient rest.
You won’t be able to do anything productive when your mind isn’t working. If you compel it, you will be only doing harm to yourself than good. It’s very important to consider the pressure in which you are working on. No matter how much salary you earn, if the pressure is too extreme find another work elsewhere.
Your health is far more important than the work you are doing. Remember that when you are completely ill you will never be able to work again, but if you leave that job it’s obvious you will find another conducive working environment.
It affects the quality of the work.
This is very true. Working under extreme pressure will make you be in a hurry to complete the production of the products. The main aim will be delivering the products needed but not the quality. The quality of the will be affected so greatly. When you are manufacturing products or delivering a service it is very important that you keep an eye on the quality.
When you are under extreme pressure the manager or the employer will want you to deliver the products in a specified time, since you don’t want to annoy your manager you will do anything possible to deliver the products. In this case, you will lack sufficient time of checking the product’s quality.
The quality of work will be affected. The quality is the important aspect of ever product or services being delivered. The quality matters because it does determine the sell or the conversion rates of the services being delivered. If the quality is good there is a higher possibility that the products will be bought in huge numbers. Let us now look on the side where the quantity is higher and the quality is low.
When that is the case then the sells will be so low and most of the products will be left at your disposal.
It leads to emotional imbalance.
Brain controls every activity of the body including your emotions. This means that when your brain is total exhausted due to the extreme pressure that you are on, it is obviously that you will be out of control of your own emotions.
Nothing is bad like being out of control of your own emotions. This can results to a very serious problem at your work place. You might end up fighting, abusing and quarreling with your co-workers. The moment when you are in too much pressure in completing the workload that has been handed to you by your manager. Your brain will only be focused on completing the task.
This will make you even forget some of the important aspect of your personalities due to the pressure you are on. For instance, when your co-worker makes a joke in front of your working desk you might end up slapping him or her. This is because you are completely exhausted and you are out of control of your own emotions.
You will be gloomy and not ready to entertain any jokes before you. I really don’t think this is a good thing at all. It will make you lose more not just your job only but also your friends.
It may leads to stress.
Stress is also another negative result that may be obtained under working on extreme pressure. Stress is so harmful to our health. So, let me explain to you how can working under extreme pressure results to stress.
We are now all aware that stress is caused my emotional tensions. Stress will come in where you have been given a huge workload to complete and the time given is so minimal. Remember you have you personal duties that you have to do also.
You have to spend some time with your family and friends, if you are a bachelor you may want to refresh yourself. When the workload is too heavy it might deprive you all these personal things that you might want to do.
As you try so hard to fix the time and manipulate it to complete the task, in which it’s almost impossible this will now make you worried on how you are going to finish it. The more worrier you get the more stresses accumulate in your brain.
You will be so much worried and asking yourself a lot of questions of what is going to happen to you if you haven’t deliver the work required on time. These stresses will not only end up on your work place but you will carry them with you at your house in which it will be more disastrous to your health, your friends and family.
It may lead to family break ups and antisocialism.
As I mentioned in the point above,
“These stresses will not only end up on your work place but you will carry them with you at your house in which it will be more disastrous to your health, your friends and family.”
This will make you lack time and attention for your family. Love and affection will be lost due to the pressure that you will be on from your work place. Family needs, care, attention, time, love, support and responsible parent to solve their problems in the house. In this case, you won’t have time for any. This will distant you more from your family.
In which in the end your family will no longer cope up with this savage attitude of yours. This may lead to family break up. No one will want to be associated with a person who has no time for his/her family.
All this is resulted from the workload that has been posed to you by your manager. It’s better to be a hustler and live a happy life with your family than earning hundred thousand per month and live a life full of stresses.
This will go further to your friends. These stresses affect every part of your lifestyle. You will no longer want to get associated with anyone. Your main aim will be work. The more time you separate yourself from your friends the more you will be losing them.
To conclude, it’s very important to consider the pressure in which you are working on. You have now known the advantages and disadvantages of working under pressure. If you love yourself dearly, you will always want the best for yourself. Work in an environment where you can handle the pressure posed to you, if the pressure is too extreme just search for a suitable work that you will be able to handle in a good way without you getting yourself in the problems that I have outlined above.
Can you please give me some of the examples of works that employees are usually under extreme pressure?
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